THE QUALITY OF COUNSELOR PERSONALITY AS GOLDEN BRIDGE TO QUALITY COUNSELING SERVICES

The quality of the counselor's personality is often used as a measure of whether or not a person fit to be a counselor. This is due to mature personality counselor will be able to be a good role model and for anyone, especially students in the school, because the counselor should be able to display a personality that appeals to anyone. If the counselor is not yet mature personality, it is no wonder that many students would avoid a counselor to get counseling services. Furthermore, the comfort level of students in the counseling service can also be seen from the counselor's ability to accept students such as spontaneity, acceptance and caring, understanding and empathy, warmth and human encounter, congruence and transparency and so forth. Overall it is an estuary of counselor personality that can become a model and a role model for students, so that the quality of counseling services should be supported by the steady competence of counselor competence of one's personality.