1. Analysis: acquiring a comprehensive understanding, through appropriate
assessment techniques, of how the client is and what he or she is likely to be
2. Synthesis: ordering and arranging the various parts of the client into a
total picture by assessing information on strengths and weaknesses across the
inter- and intrapersonal aspects of the client's life
3. Diagnosis: descriptively identifying the problem, discovering its causes,
checking the logic and the client's reactions, and proposing a program of action
based on the objective and subjective data presented
4. Prognosis: forecasting on the basis of available choices; diagnosis
relates to past and present conditions, whereas prognosis attempts prediction of
the future
5. Counseling: learning to deal in a generalized way with totality of life;
guided learning and reeducation through personal assistance by a variety of
techniques that help the client apply learning gained in counseling to all kinds
of problem situations
6. Follow-up: reinforcing, reevaluating, and checking the client's progress in
applying what has been learned in counseling to daily life