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The galloping evolution of contemporary society, the abundance of information under its many forms, brings the man in the middle of a personal chaos in which he feels more and more lonely. In a lecture on the so called New Age concept, a journalist described the man in a way that reminded me: he one feels one, another does something else and he says something else. The loneliness of man has become like an island in an ocean of ignorance, of orienting its own values to what is material, visible, measurable in daily comfort on the background of the survival in a society where you ask for help is equivalent to receiving the label of "poor," "handicapped", "drugged", " delinquent " and other adjectives that even deepen the wound, throwing you in the power of impotence. In a Romania that, after the 1989 revolution, who had to reorganize the social work system and align it with the European standards of the developed countries, there is now a need to adapt our counseling methods to our cultural specificities. In this article, I will address the following issues: methodological explanations and precautions of social work counseling, myths about counseling, the counseling process. The practical part consists of a series of counseling meetings, in a theoretically explained order, before the actual sessions are held.
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