Difference Between Psychological Counseling and Therapy and Chatting

Psychological counseling is a professional who uses psychology and related knowledge to help clients solve psychological problems through various techniques and methods.

Have you seen the "various techniques and methods"? "Chat" is just one of the methods.

Counseling methods include, but are not limited to, "chatting". The so-called "chat" in psychological counseling is called a meeting, which includes an intake interview (to understand the client's objective background, health, work, family, etc.), a discriminatory interview (to determine what tests and discriminative tests to use through conversation and observation), ** a sexual interview (a meeting for abnormal psychological problems and behavioral problems), a counseling interview (for normal psychological problems), etc. Meetings are an important way to facilitate the consultation process and achieve the effectiveness of the consultation.

Each conversation has a clear purpose and methodology, so the conversation process is not a casual conversation, the counselor will touch and deeply analyze the client's various emotions and feelings, as well as their causes and consequences.

In addition to talks, different schools of psychological counseling have different psychological methods, such as cognitive behavior**including homework, recognition of automatic thinking, rational emotions**, etc., the main methods of psychoanalysis include free association, dream interpretation, empathy analysis, etc., humanism mainly includes understanding, respect, unconditional positive attention, etc., Satya model includes intervention techniques, personality part of the dance, communication posture, family remodeling, sculpture, hypnosis ** includes five fingers separation test, arm weight test, A series of techniques such as arm lifting.

Psychological counseling is the daily chat with the patient to find out if the patient is suffering from mental illness.

Help patients answer questions through chatting, and take patients out of their psychological selves.

There is no difference in essence.

However, there are also ways in which psychological counseling can be achieved.

It doesn't have to be the psychological condition of the patient during the chat.

In the minds of many people, psychological counseling is just chatting with a psychological counselor, but in fact, there is a clear demarcation between psychological counseling and chatting

1.Chat is a conversation without any requirements, while psychological counseling is when the counselor and the client work together to discuss an issue in depth** with a clear goal of the conversation. Since the goal is to solve the client's psychological problems, the conversation process is not a casual conversation, but the counselor will touch and deeply analyze the client's various emotional feelings, deep-seated needs, and their causes and consequences.

2.The purpose of the counseling session is to help the client to explore themselves deeply, enhance their in-depth understanding of their own emotions, beliefs and behaviors, and enhance their understanding of the mechanisms and consequences of their own words. Each time the client experiences a psychological conversation, the client's self-awareness deepens.

Counselors will certainly provide some practical life guidance to clients, but their more important purpose is to awaken the client's latent inner strength and urge them to grow and improve themselves. The significance of successful psychological counseling is not only to solve the client's specific problems, but also to enable the client to achieve spiritual growth, so that he can also acquire the ability to solve similar problems.

3.The main function of chat is to maintain the contact of relationships and friendships, and the chat is general life information, and the main purpose is not to solve people's mental pain. Therefore, most people in life are more casual and undemanding, and there is no pressure to chat.

And in the process of chatting, both parties will avoid topics that embarrass each other, and will not go deep into each other's hearts and important memories, or even grow shadows, and will not do a practical and specific dissection of a person's personality weaknesses.

In short, there is a big difference between psychological counseling and chat in terms of counseling goals, counseling depth, and counseling direction.

After nearly 2 to 3 months of my attempts at this kind of intensive, professional, systematic, one-hour consultation, the clients have also said that this kind of time-limited professional consultation is more effective. Because this kind of consultation made him more focused within a certain hour, because it was a more in-depth discussion on a problem, and they all found the stuck point of their problem in the in-depth discussion, and they all got the effect they didn't expect. After the consultation, they knew more clearly that it was not her husband who wanted her to understand herself, but the wife herself who needed her husband's understanding more; Knowing that in communicating with your husband, talking about your own needs can make your husband understand your needs better than talking about what you don't want, which can greatly reduce the internal friction between husband and wife; so that they know what it means to be a parent who understands their children; I understand that letting go is not about not asking, but about giving children full freedom to make decisions when the love of parents is always there; Let them experience that the communication with their children and husbands is more effective ...... talking about their feelings

Counseling areas of expertise: adolescent psychological counseling (suspension of school, Internet addiction, learning motivation, parent-child, teacher-student, classmate relationship); Marriage health counseling and auxiliary psychological counseling for various neuroses such as depression, anxiety, and obsessive-compulsive compulsion.

Many people think that counseling is just talking to the client (the person who is looking for a counselor for help), but this is not the case. Counselling is a chat with a client to help the client, but it is by no means just a chat.

Let's start with the definition: psychological counseling refers to the use of professional psychological counseling techniques and methods to help clients better adapt to society, and the ultimate goal is to achieve the client's own growth. Its essence is to establish a kind of ** alliance.

As can be seen from the definition, psychological counseling is completely different from chatting, and the specific differences are as follows:

1. A lot of professional psychological knowledge and techniques will be used in psychological counseling, and the chat may be more casual, and there is no requirement for the content and topic of the chat, mainly based on feelings.

2. In the process of psychological counseling, the counselor is required to have a certain ability to empathize (empathy means that I am not you, the unit tries to feel your feelings as much as possible), unconditionally trust the client, listen patiently to the client, and do not make any judgments.

Unconditional trust means that when the client tells a story that may be fantastical, the counselor has to trust him unconditionally, which cannot be done in a chat. How do you understand this without judging in any way? If it is a chat, then everyone can judge her by secular moral standards, but the counselor will maintain an objective and neutral attitude to analyze the problem from the client's point of view.

3. Psychological counseling is generally a professional, relatively independent and private place for counseling, the counseling time is generally 45 minutes, and there are obvious counseling goals, such as quitting Internet addiction. There are no requirements for the place and time of chatting about the late bench days, and there is generally no clear theme.

4. Psychological counseling is charged by time and helps clients solve problems. If it's just chatting, then no visitor wants to pay.

From the above 4 points, it can be seen that chat and psychological counseling are completely two yards of shouting travel code, and everyone should not be confused.

Psychiatric counselors communicate through words, but it's not an ordinary chat!

Chatting between friends, even if they are friends who have nothing to say, they are just listeners or playmates, and they can't cure their mental diseases, they can only chat with each other, and they won't see their inner world! It's just a waste of time, and sometimes it will be ridiculed, and some things will be promoted, maybe even worse.

What a psychological counselor wants is to be careful, observant, to cure through chatting, to understand the heart more deeply, to be able to see unknown defects or illnesses through chatting, not to laugh at it, but also to keep secrets! Do not disclose personal information! No expansion of the area to promote any private information!

Observe what is in your heart through chatting, and find the ,...... planThank.

Psychoanalysis: Hello, subject. [Is counseling just chatting?]

The subject, scattered and really many people have a big misunderstanding of psychological counseling, thinking that psychological counseling is just chatting. The difference between psychological counseling and chatting: Psychological counseling has the best effect, while chat does not.

For example, in psychological counseling, especially psychodynamics, the main thing is to talk**, the counselor is more about listening, accompanying, empathizing, guiding the client, using empathy and countertransference, so that the client can get more experience in counseling. Psychological counselor is not a technical profession, for example, you can learn more theoretical knowledge of the cluster, get more familiar with the work, increase your experience, etc. In psychological counseling, the counselor's knowledge, personality, and personal experience of the counselor himself are very important, as is often said in psychology

The counselor can lead the client as far as he or she can go. Therefore, the chat in psychological counseling is aimed at the problem, the target, and the systematic chat. At the same time, whether psychological counseling is effective or not depends not only on technology, but mainly on the counseling relationship, because the conflicts, interpersonal relationships, personality traits and so on that exist in our reality will be presented in the counseling relationship, and then the counselor uses this relationship to accompany the client, hold the client, and finally let the client repair the part that needs to be repaired, get a new relationship experience, and thus grow.

Finally, talk to the subject about "listening" in psychological counseling: In psychological counseling work, the most common is listening technology, which is completely different from "listening" in daily life, "listening" in psychological counseling is based on acceptance, active, serious, concerned, following and accompanying, "listening" in the client's world, and moderate participation, for example, the counselor will timely guide, clarify, face and so on. Bless the subject.

Counseling is not the same as a simple chat.

Counselling is not a casual chat. Psychologists will be very careful to use their own experience in conversations, using professional knowledge and techniques in psychology, and positive thinking conversations with theoretical support are very different from ordinary conversations or chats for entertainment. The purpose of the counselor's conversation with the client is to "help others help themselves".

Psychological counseling is also different from ideological education. Ideological work has a clear direction before it begins, and the uniqueness of the individual is often overlooked, while psychological counseling is very individualized. For example, people who are also dissatisfied with the working environment and have too strong a sense of competition or dominance will often experience the benefits of "going with the flow" or "doing nothing" after counseling, resulting in corresponding behavioral changes; People with self-doubt, fear of competition, and avoidance of challenges may be encouraged to live actively.

Basic principles of psychological counseling.

Principle of confidentiality: Consultants should keep the client's inner secrets and properly keep the correspondence, test materials and other materials. If it is necessary to cite an example of consultation due to the needs of work, the materials shall be handled appropriately and the personal information of the visitor shall not be disclosed.

Understanding and supporting principles: The counselor should fully understand the client's language, actions and emotions, and should not criticize right and wrong from a moral perspective, but should help the client analyze the reasons and find a way out.

Positive Mindset Cultivation Principle: The main purpose of the counselor is to help the client analyze the problem, cultivate the client's positive attitude, establish self-confidence, let the client grow psychologically, and find out the solution to the problem by himself.