Counseling Essay: You Should Be Scientific, Creative and Helping

So much was written on counseling, and so much is still to research. If you are asked to write a counseling essay, you may consider theoretic background of the issue, possible practical implementation of some techniques or you may try to be creative and introduce new topics for counseling essays.

1. Theory in a counseling essay. Students may focus on theoretical definitions and overall study of counseling. It is possible to analyze academic works devoted to this type of clients’ help. Your counseling essay may deals with comparison of counseling and psychotherapy; you may try to define whether these two types of helping people differ or represent two slightly different approaches.
2. Practice in counseling essay. Students may concentrate on different techniques of counseling and its implementation in practice. For example, their counseling essay may suggest new approaches and ways to counsel. A very popular topic for such essays is the one of multicultural counseling. In your counseling essay you may also research a problem of ethics in counseling. 
3. Technology and counseling essay. In such essays you may research the possibility to use computer programs and/or the Internet for counseling. Is personal counseling essential or it may be substituted partially/completely by distant communication or even by computer program?
4. Creativity in counseling essays. If you are creative enough you may introduce totally innovative techniques of counseling. You may think of a method of reverse counseling. When an advisor listens to a client, but instead of giving distinct pieces of advice asks an advice from the client. In such a way the client learns to find answers for his/her own and new-coming questions. This method can be effective with those clients who are reluctant to follow their advisors’ hints.