INTRODUCTION

WHAT´S COUNSELLING?? 

We started checking our previous knowledge: translating"Orientación educativa y acción tutorial" first individually and later defining the concept by teams according to our previous knowledge and experiences.

At first we could think "what can I say?" but then we realize that guidance and counselling is something that everybody had experienced at schools in one or another way...and collecting these experiences we were able to form a reasonable definition in order to gain a general concept of the subject.

I´ve found two poems which reflect the labour made through guidance and counselling

Counselling, The Poem

" When i asked you to listen to me and you start

Giving me advice, you have
Not done what i asked.

When i ask you to listen to me and you begin
To tell me why I shouldn't feel that way, you are
Trampling on my feelings.

 When i ask you to listen to me and you fell you have
To do something to solve my problems,
You have failed me, strange as that may seem.

LISTEN! All I asked was that you listen,
Not talk, or do- just hear me."

Poem to a counsellor! 

Thank you for being there, 
I thought that you wouldn't really want to care.

But you do and my thinking was wrong, 
You decided to stay with me after I had bombarded you for so long.

If it wasn't for you, wouldn't I have made it this far, 
Before you reached out my life was blacker than tar.

Now my life has become clear, 
With you to turn to I no longer have to cry a tear.

I can see that the colour has came back to my face, 
I no longer look at myself as being a disgrace.

I can now go out and have fun with a friend, 
And know that this fun doesn't have to end.

I hardly even get a craving, 
I'm now in control of the way i'm behaving.

But at night I do find it hard and frustrating, 
But and the end of the day it is progress i'm making.

I now belive in myself, 
The Becky we once knew is high on the shelf.

All I have to do is take it day by day, 
All this progress is down to you because you decided to stay! ! ! 

Becky Ginn

Moreover, these are the videos that we used in our web page in order to say what is counselling about:


Why its labour is such as important?







How do they work?

Counselling must be seen as something normal!

* Some of the songs such as "time after time" or "I´ll be there for you" that can be played in the ipod placed on the margin, also remind the labour of the counsellors.