PSYCHIC FACTS

  Introduction   Counseling can be classified into remedial, preventive and the developmental  approach (Jordaan et al., 1968). These interventions may include individual and social counseling organized on different levels or groups; it also contains the ability to tackle future difficulties and to make the balance between plans and enhancement of relationship whether it could be between couples, parent-child, individuals, and within communities (Kagan et al., 1998).   Trends in counseling Three major theoretical forces have dominated the work of counselors and therapists in the past. These include the three original and most practiced forms of helping the psychodynamic (first force), cognitive-behavioral (second force), and existential-humanistic (third force) theories of counseling and therapy. Newer theories have evolved and are becoming more central.    First among these is multicultural counseling and therapy, often called the fourth force in helping.  Also, it is now important to