One of the biggest trends in counselling is the career and counselling services in Ukrainian schools. In a situation where there are options for someone to choose from, one is likely to face the problem of choice. This has been a very serious problem for most people, especially students who are faced with the task of choosing a career path. Most of the students that are found in the secondary schools fall within the ages of 10 and 17 years. Henceforth this period will be dubbed ‘adolescence’. Due to the demanding nature of this period in people’s lives, many end up being unable to make the appropriate choices. The resulting emotional and vocational misalignment causes a number of problems, including dissatisfaction in work, frustration, conflicts and failure in life. To prevent people from suffering, caused by these problems, counselling is a widely spread service in Ukrainian schools (cf. Pilgu/Gaj 2016).
Counselling in Ukraine denotes a more therapeutic and personalized intervention, when in many other countries therapy and counselling are separated from each other. In Ukraine the term guidance is more commonly used, which means assisting humans in critical life courses.
Counselling contains different aspects, such as psychological, educational and medical aspects. The psychological and educational aspect is to assist clients in realizing themselves as active participants in social and cultural activities, when the medical aspect determines the physical fitness of a client.
Other Trends nowadays are Positive Psychology (Lushyn 2020), which is the scientific study of what goes right in life, from birth to death and at all stops in between. It is a newly christened approach within psychology that takes seriously as a subject matter those things that make life most worth living. Everyone’s life has peaks and valleys, and positive psychology does not deny the valleys. It assumes that life entails more than we are not frittering life away (Peterson 2006: 3ff)