When To Stop Counseling
From the series: Handouts
Topics: Methodology
When to Stop Counseling
- When the counselee understands what caused his problems and the biblical way of handling them.
- When the counselee becomes comfortable with the new response pattern(s).
- When the counselee begins to practice the new pattern(s) automatically.
- When the counselee has failed and can diagnose the reason for the failure and make plans for correcting the problem.
- When the counselee can state specifically how he has changed.
- When the counselee has been tested and has been victorious in the test.
- When others have verified the changes in the counselee.
- When the counselee starts to share with others what he is learning in counseling, effectively becoming an informal and spontaneous counselor to others.