Counselling skills and techniques

Describe counselling skills and technique of one counselling theory of your choice.

Cognitive theory is one of the counselling theories. It dates back in 1960 when it was propounded by a psychotherapist by the name Aaron Beck.

This paradigm in counselling focuses feelings and behaviours can be changed by people’s way of thinking. Therapy based on this theory is brief in nature and its main goal is problem solving.

Counsellors who adopt this theory in their therapy major on a person’s current situation and negative thought patterns. They do not retaliate on the past