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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
counselling
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a therapy/counselling session (=when someone is given personal advice)
▪ At one point his parents joined him for a family therapy session.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
genetic
▪ She subsequently attended the genetic counselling clinic, and was very anxious about the situation.
▪ We included genetic counselling alone, for familial cases when no prenatal diagnosis is available, among primary preventive approaches.
▪ As albinism is of genetic origin, genetic counselling should be available to teenagers.
▪ Complaints of headaches should be taken seriously and genetic counselling made available at the appropriate time.
▪ Macular degeneration can be hereditary and genetic counselling appropriate.
▪ Mobility may be increasingly affected. Genetic counselling should be available.
▪ Some cases are hereditary so genetic counselling should be given.
▪ One of the first steps will be to organise genetic counselling for all children not yet tested.
individual
▪ Some general practitioners may be willing to offer individual counselling or marital therapy themselves.
▪ As with most pre-retirement education, individual financial counselling is a strong feature of the retirement holiday weeks.
▪ Specific eating difficulties are addressed in individual counselling sessions later in the day.
▪ Whilst individual counselling recognizes the uniqueness of human problems, group-based counselling recognizes shared problems.
▪ Specific issues may be processed in individual counselling.
▪ Pace Offers training courses and individual counselling to lesbians and gay men on a range of issues, including HIV/AIDS.
▪ The group meets four times a week; in addition we have individual counselling sessions and we also meet with couples.
■ NOUN
process
▪ This is the part of the counselling process which many dislike because it necessarily creates stress and anxiety in the counsellee.
▪ The ultimate aim of the counselling process is to achieve significant improvement in the social and interpersonal relationships of the counsellee.
▪ The counselling process focuses upon self-image, and ultimately aims at modifying it in a constructive way.
▪ Thus, when pain is seen to arise within the counselling process, counselling is thought to be the cause.
▪ Making decisions Helping the counsellee to make decisions is the ultimate goal of the counselling process.
▪ This highlights one of the main differences of approach between normal communication within the family and the counselling process.
▪ In the counselling process with older people, the importance of working with the family should not be underestimated.
▪ Listening is the real starting point of the counselling process.
service
▪ There are areas built for specialist counselling services.
▪ The college student counselling services are well-experienced in such matters and can be very supportive.
▪ It runs a confidential telephone counselling service and publishes material for teenagers, parents, and others.
▪ It also provides a counselling service and a range of literature with advice on emotional as well as practical problems.
▪ She organized an all-night telephone counselling service for students in despair about their grades or love-lives.
▪ If they are, they can turn to the mainstream counselling service.
▪ Some 65 percent of respondents provided career counselling services irrespective of any redundancy situation.
▪ The procedures are in place for the independent counselling service to run the self-help group and supply advocates to meet demand.
skill
▪ Volunteers need greater counselling skills and better personal emotional support than ever before.
▪ Does the health authority employ a qualified occupational health team with well-developed counselling skills?
▪ Staff with responsibility for student welfare should be given training to acquire counselling skills.
▪ Ministers are sent on courses to learn counselling skills and how to manage parish accounts.
▪ If this is so then increasing the counselling skills of general practitioners may be preferable to widening the primary health care team.
▪ Enable occupational health staff to obtain and update their counselling skills.
■ VERB
help
▪ Anyone who would like to help or needs counselling should call Mrs Grundy on.
▪ At present we seem able to do little to help male attempters by means of counselling approaches.
▪ Depression can be helped by medical and counselling methods.
▪ Listening Perhaps the most fundamental skill which helps counselling to transcend other forms of communication is listening.
▪ The patient's feeling of being a burden on his family might be helped by counselling or greater support.
▪ This is understandably a very difficult time which may be helped by support or counselling.
need
▪ Our doctors and nurses need far more counselling in this area, as do our social workers and priests.
▪ Anyone who would like to help or needs counselling should call Mrs Grundy on.
▪ But it needs complementary mechanisms for counselling, transmission of experience, management expertise, financial support, upskilling programmes.
▪ Volunteers need greater counselling skills and better personal emotional support than ever before.
▪ If time off is needed for counselling or treatment, you should do everything you can to grant it.
▪ They say she will need medical help and counselling to overcome the tragedy.
▪ He may need counselling to overcome the trauma in the future.
▪ Women with severe emotional problems may need counselling on a long-term basis.
offer
▪ It offers counselling as well as physical medical support.
▪ Some general practitioners may be willing to offer individual counselling or marital therapy themselves.
▪ They offer confidential counselling, basic crime prevention advice and help with practical details like insurance claims.
▪ The following organisations may offer counselling and support through their groups.
▪ The worker saw him twice, offering a counselling service.
▪ Industrial economics Local enterprise agencies offer free advice and counselling to people who own or are considering setting up a small business.
▪ London Lesbian and Gay Switchboard offer a telephone counselling service.
▪ Students who seem likely to fail on a particular goal, for example attendance, may be offered counselling and support.
provide
▪ Students are supported by a network of International Associate Institutions who provide workshops, counselling and fellowship to graduate students.
▪ This would ensure against abuses and provide skills in counselling.
▪ It also provides a counselling service and a range of literature with advice on emotional as well as practical problems.
▪ They often provide a drop-in centre and sometimes they provide group counselling as well as a link to appropriate specialist health services.
▪ Some 65 percent of respondents provided career counselling services irrespective of any redundancy situation.
▪ Several organisations provide counselling for partners, friends or families.
▪ More should be done by organisations to provide counselling in career development and to encourage self-development for both younger and older employees.
▪ Its failure to provide the counselling and support needed was unfair to her and her parents.
receive
▪ In this issue Sibbald and colleagues show that fewer than half of counsellors have received specialist training in counselling.
▪ Academic trainees should receive proper counselling before starting a research post in order that future career options are fully understood.
▪ A similar sample of 100 was taken from the 216 clients who received counselling from the local Drugs Council.
▪ Be sure that you receive post-test counselling even if the result is negative.
▪ Everyone will, as per standing Union agreements, receive outplacement counselling, redundancy payments.
▪ You may want to continue using drugs, but receive regular support or counselling.
seek
▪ Either way, you should seek counselling.
▪ With more serious problems it would be wise to seek professional counselling.
▪ Many of them had sought counselling from the college chaplain.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ The college will provide counselling for students who have problems with alcohol or drugs.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ An effective general practitioner must have counselling skills to elicit important diagnostic information and manage consultations appropriately.
▪ But Penny's advice and counselling was to continue.
▪ During the counselling sessions some of the young troopers in the East mentioned impotence as being chief among their difficulties.
▪ Frequently, the support teacher becomes the source of all forms of support as the boundaries between education and counselling are blurred.
▪ His thinking has affected modern approaches to therapy and to counselling and education.
▪ Otherwise the key areas of debt counselling and clerical support can not continue adequately.
▪ Particular attention is paid to ageism, and the part counselling can play in combating its effects.
▪ This strategy would facilitate crucial improvements to preventative services such as family care centres and counselling facilities.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Counselling

Counsel \Coun"sel\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Counseled (-s[e^]ld) or Counselled; p. pr. & vb. n. Counseling or Counselling.] [OE. conseilen, counseilen, F. conseiller, fr. L. consiliari, fr. consilium counsel.]

  1. To give advice to; to advice, admonish, or instruct, as a person.

    Good sir, I do in friendship counsel you To leave this place.
    --Shak.

  2. To advise or recommend, as an act or course.

    They who counsel war.
    --Milton.

    Thus Belial, with words clothed in reason's garb, Counseled ignoble ease and peaceful sloth.
    --Milton.

Wiktionary
counselling

n. (context British spelling English) (alternative form of counseling English) vb. (context British spelling English) (present participle of counsel English)

WordNet
counselling

See counsel

counselling

n. something that provides direction or advice as to a decision or course of action [syn: guidance, counsel, counseling, direction]

counsel

  1. n. a lawyer who pleads cases in court [syn: advocate, counselor, counsellor, counselor-at-law, pleader]

  2. something that provides direction or advice as to a decision or course of action [syn: guidance, counseling, counselling, direction]

  3. [also: counselling, counselled]

counsel

  1. v. give advice to; "The teacher counsels troubled students"; "The lawyer counselled me when I was accused of tax fraud" [syn: advise]

  2. [also: counselling, counselled]

Usage examples of "counselling".

You shall also eschew the counselling of all flatterers, such as force themselves rather to praise your person than to tell you the truth about things.

And David says that he is a happy man who has I not followed the counselling of villains.

Then must you take into consideration the root whereof is grown the matter of your counselling, and what fruit it may engender.

And when you have examined your counselling as I have outlined to you, and have determined which part of it is the better and more profitable, and have found it to be approved by many wise and elderly men: then shall you consider whether you have power to carry it to a good end.

Also, if your counselling is dishonest, or comes of a false premise, change your plan.

Trust me, your counselling in this case should not be called counselling, properly speaking, but only a motion to do folly.

Certainly the truth of this matter, or of this counselling, needs no long inquiry.

I’ve offered her counselling, of course, but she appears to be sure she knows what she’s doing.

Even those who had suffered no major injuries needed reassurance, proper food and counselling in that order to recover from their ordeal.

And since the counsellor - a young English lady by the name of Helene - was on the production set every day anyway, prompting Martha from some lofty position with tidbits like, "You have the power Martha, use it," or, "Be kind to yourself Martha, you're your own best friend," and since the production company was paying Martha's counselling bills, they thought - why not?

On BBC1 Martha Naaktgeboren lay back in the comfortable counselling chair while Helene leaned forward attentively from her office-style seat, without the barrier of a desk between.

Millions upon millions of people were getting entirely the wrong idea of what counselling was about.

Her niceness and concern for other people that went with it had held great sway in her choice of counselling as a career.

When Meliboeus had heard that the greatest part of his council were accorded [in agreement] that he should make war, anon he consented to their counselling, and fully affirmed their sentence [opinion, judgement].

Then he must eschew the counselling of fools, of flatterers, of his old enemies that be reconciled, of servants who bear him great reverence and fear, of folk that be drunken and can hide no counsel, of such as counsel one thing privily and the contrary openly.