Professional Counseling. A Comparative Approach of Systemic and Client-Centered Counseling

Seminar paper from the year 2013 in the subject Social Work, grade: 2,0, University of Siegen, language: English, abstract: After the introduction, the author will make an attempt to define professional counseling in social work, and then explain systemic counseling, taking into account the basic attitudes and techniques. Afterwards the author will present the client-centered counseling according to C. Rogers and its basic attitudes as well as techniques. Finally, a comparison of the two models will be made under the above mentioned questions. The author of this work would like to start an attempt to point out the similarities and differences of the systemic and the client-centered consulting models, in order to work out with this term paper for itself, which consulting approach it would prefer after the attendance of the above-mentioned seminars and whether one of both can be preferred at all. In this term paper, both counseling models are based only on counseling and not on therapy, because later in working life, counseling will be the predominant approach for social work students.