Title: Challenges in counselling young people
Course: Adolescent and Youth Reproductive Health - Ethiopia (Full)

Challenges in counselling young people

In previous sections you have learned how your behaviour can affect counselling the young client. Now you will learn how some young people's behaviours can affect the counselling process. Specifically, we will teach you some of the challenging behaviours that you may face in counselling young people and how you should handle these challenges. They are presented in Box 9.2.

Box 9.2 Counselling challenges

- Silence
- Crying
- Threat of suicide
- Need to talk.

Each of these situations requires appropriate handling.