One of the norms of life is that a person goes through many problems and difficulties that result in many different family, psychological and social pressures.
Previously, resorting to elderly relatives and people of wisdom and opinion was the only option, but we have to choose the right person who specializes in solving problems according to the nature of the problem, as a person needs a specialized person to talk to him and consult him in order to solve what hinders his affairs.. but when he remembers a look People who are negative to the counseling seeker, especially in the psychological field, we find him standing hesitant and confused about that step. The fear and shyness of resorting to seeking counseling is still present in our society.
This negative view is deficient, and its basis is to return everything to the perspective of customs and traditions that did not keep pace with life and continued to shackle man and hinder him from progress and development, as he became a prisoner of it despite the progress of life and the development of its concepts and the broadening of its horizons.
On the part of social counseling, we find a remarkable development in awareness of its importance and methods of providing it. Consultations are now provided in person to counseling centers and meeting counsellors, or through various means of communication such as telephone consultations, or through communication networks such as WhatsApp, Skype, and applications dedicated to remote communication, which contributed to changing people’s perception. As for counseling, resorting to counseling has become an available and important option due to the positive feedback and gaining confidence in society in the past few years.
Counseling is a process of insight to help the counselor discover, understand, and analyze himself and his personal, emotional, and behavioral problems, which result in his poor psychological compatibility, and thus work to solve these problems in a way that achieves for the counselor the best level of psychological compatibility and mental health, while giving him solutions to deal with the problem based on scientific theories and professional applications. The counselor studied, learned and trained on it until he became able to provide this type of counseling, and with the development of societies and their search for various social concepts, social counseling appeared in a modern concept, and people began to adopt it for several reasons, including: the complexity of life and its requirements at the level of individuals and societies, as people’s needs became dire Therefore, social and family counseling centers that deal with all kinds of social issues at the level of the individual and society have emerged and spread.
People's perception of these centers has changed and their turnout for them is rare compared to the present time and awareness of their importance.
Master of Social Service and Family Counselor
Hilala bint Ahmed Al-Sweegh