The Counseling: Interview with Alessandra Caporale

The Counseling

by Giovanna Fiorentini,

Bologna da Vivere Alessandra Caporale, for about 20 years engaged in the Bologna area but not only in counseling activities and today National President of AssoCounseling.

What is counseling and who are the counselors?

Counseling is configured as an independent profession and the counselor is a professional able to foster self-exploratory processes that help clients to elaborate and implement changes and actions that can improve aspects of their life. The counseling courses have the objective of facilitating in individuals and / or groups a greater contact with their needs, desires, aspirations, potential to interpret the concept of well-being in a complex society in an authentic and vital way. This society is characterized by socio-relational changes that constantly redraw borders and priorities, individual and collective values ​​and needs and have given a strong impulse to the culture of counseling in Italy by introducing, in fact, a perspective of the helping relationship separated from clinical contexts. and / or sanitary.

The skills and knowledge of a counselor pertain to the sphere of relationship and communication, his tools are mainly linked to professional listening and to foster widespread forms of empowerment with a view to a real "maieutic" of the relationship; the counselor "helps to help himself" through an equal relationship, not normative and / or managerial and based on universal ethical values, such as respect, transparency, empathy, the absence of any form of evaluation and / or judgment, the conscious use of communication.

In the meeting between counselor and client, a path is co-constructed aimed at favoring the change desired by the client and identified through clear and defined objectives. For example, a person who finds himself making difficult choices in the workplace, a caregiver in the management of his own life or that of a relative, a person who wishes to expand his social network, a precarious worker who cannot plan his own future , a person who wishes to change jobs or cities; these examples are not exhaustive but indicate some situations in which the counselor can facilitate decision-making and change paths on defined issues.

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