A PROBLEM OF DIAGNOSTICS IS IN THE PERSONALITY-ORIENTED PSYCHOLOGICAL ADVISING
A feasibility study on the use of diagnostic procedures in student-centered psychological counseling. A debate on the following questions: what in fact contains information obtained in the course of diagnosis, whether it is accurate and reliable for understanding and possible solutions of problems counseling or other applications; whether it is possible to obtain information without using special techniques, except for interviews and conversations; it always has the value of the information obtained for the consultative process and practice. A comparative analysis of the use of methods of psycho-diagnostics in medical, educational and other counseling models marked the justification and the difficulty of its use in different approaches. The thesis of dubious use of proper diagnostic psychological counseling model. The arguments in favor of this thesis are the following: review of the client’s problem occurs on the basis of an individual, rather than social ethics that does not correspond to the same pedagogical approach; as opposed to educational and medical criteria, attention is drawn to the problems and potential, rather than diseases and disabilities; Consultancy focused on the development and optimization of individual existence, and not the elimination of symptoms and normalization of social behavior; are focused on the process and not on the procedure; the clinician tempted too actively use tests as an aid to the diagnostic process, and it often leads to the fact that the client waits ready «answers» from the tests, instead of to investigate the cause of their difficulties; diagnosis entails the appearance of the installation on the imposition of value judgments regarding the client’s problems.