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The counsellors are informed by the people seeking help with factual information about their personal life situation and the behavior of the people interacting with them and thus are allowed to work together with the person seeking help and clarify the concrete situation and resolve the conflict.

Counselling is a special get-together for a period of time. Its standards incorporate the individual’s full intentionality. Then again, the counsellor gives complete privacy to the client. Counselling’s objective is not to offer solid guidance, the advisor endeavors along with the individual looking for appeal, and help explain their troubles, issues, or clashes and attempts to give them both assistance in comprehension and direction as help in deciding. Opportunities for tackling problems are looked for together. Counselling is one form of empowerment.

One of the counselling objectives is to look for guidance and help more dependable and suitable and give that person more individual flexibility. Accomplishing this objective requires a fortifying of oneself. Accordingly Advising at the same time adds to the democratization of society" (BfgA, 1975, 4).