What is the difference between psychotherapy and counseling?

Chinese and foreign scholars have their own opinions on the definition of psychological counseling, which makes people feel that "the facts are unified and the expressions are different". Generally speaking, psychological counseling is through the communication between the counselor and the counseling object at the psychological level, so that the client has an objective understanding of himself, others, and the environment, understands his or her own psychological situation, solves his or her psychological problems in life, study, work, emotion, interpersonal communication, illness and other aspects, and changes his attitude and behavior. Help clients establish a belief in self-reliance, maintain and improve physical and mental health, and promote the process of personality development and potential development.

Psychology is for clients with psychological disorders, psychologists use professional psychological methods to help clients untie the fixed knots that are harmful to mental health. Find the root cause of depression, anxiety, fear, etc., and the root cause of inappropriate behavior. Deal with the client and assist the client in dealing with these events and the emotions that come with them.

Lead the client to come out of these bad emotions, feel all kinds of normal emotions, and be able to naturally make appropriate behaviors for various emotions. Therefore, psychology is the process of correcting the client's psychological and behavioral problems.

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Cognitive comprehension** hypnosis ** psychoanalysis**, etc.

Psychological counseling is suitable for the problems of healthy people, while psychological counseling is suitable for clients with deep emotional distress, and the latter counseling methods are more standardized.

The ultimate goal of psychological counseling is to alleviate psychological symptoms. The slight difference is that the psychological methods include drugs and psychological interventions, generally speaking, focusing on drugs, for example, most psychiatrists in the hospital have no patience to talk to you, they like to prescribe drugs directly; Psychological counseling does not use psychotropic drugs, but uses psychological theories and methods to help clients clear psychological obstacles.

Psychological counseling only assists in solving the psychological problems of the help-seeker, which is not standardized; Psychology is the correction of the psychological problems of the help-seeker, which is mandatory and more standardized than psychological counseling, but the basic purpose of both is to eliminate the psychological or behavioral problems of the help-seeker. You can refer to it.

Counseling refers to the process of using psychological methods to provide psychological assistance to clients who have problems with psychological adjustment and seek to solve them.

Clients can narrate, inquire and discuss their own psychological discomfort or psychological disorders with the counselor through language and other communication media, and find out the causes of psychological problems through common discussions, so as to restore psychological balance and improve physical and mental health.

Basic introduction. Psychological counseling. Psychological counseling.

The interpretation of psychological counseling can be divided into broad and narrow senses. Psychological counseling in a broad sense includes psychological counseling and psychological **, and sometimes psychological examinations and psychological tests are also included in the scope of psychological counseling. Psychological counseling in the narrow sense does not include psychological **, psychological examination, and psychological testing, and is limited to the provision of psychological assistance and counseling assistance to clients by means of interviews, letters, the Internet, and **.

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Regarding the relationship between psychological counseling and psychology, Chen Zhonggeng believes that there is no essential difference between the two, and they are similar in the nature of the relationship, in the process of change and learning, and in the theory of guidance. If there is a difference, it is also artificial and non-essential.

Clause. First, the tasks of the work are different. The task of counselling is to promote growth, emphasizing a developmental model, helping clients reach their full potential, removing roadblocks to normal development, and focusing on prevention.

And the psychological ** is mostly to make up for the damage that the patient has formed in the past, and to solve and change the structural obstacles of development.

Clause. Second, the object and the situation are different. Psychological counseling follows the model of education, and most of the clients are normal objects, mainly related to daily life problems, and generally work in schools, workplaces, psychological counseling institutions, etc.

Psychological** is aimed at patients with psychological abnormalities and works in clinical and medical situations.

Clause. Third, the way of working is different. Psychological counseling should be used in more ways to intervene in the client's living environment, such as participating in the client's direct environment, getting in touch with the client's family, relatives and friends, using more daily living facilities (such as Qing Paichang ** counseling, etc.), designing and organizing workshops and various group activities.

Fourth, the nature and content of the problem solving are different. Psychological counseling has a reality-oriented nature and involves issues of consciousness, such as career choice, cultivation and education, life and work guidance, study counseling, etc., so cognitive and reasoning methods are mostly adopted. Psycho** involves internal personality issues and more of dealing with the unconscious.

a) Distinctions. There is no essential difference between psychological counseling and psychological **, but there are some differences in some aspects.

1.The service objects and tasks are different.

The clients of psychological counseling are normal people, involving daily life problems, and the clients mainly show doubts and discomfort about certain things, and the degree is relatively mild. The main task of psychological counseling is to promote the growth and development of Latong Sale, and to eliminate psychological obstacles to its normal development. The service object of psychological ** is the patient with psychological abnormality, which is manifested as psychological disorders and diseases, the degree is more serious, and the purpose of psychological ** is to make up for the damage that the patient has suffered.

2.There are different levels of problem-solving.

Psychological counseling involves issues related to employment, studying, working, living, making friends, etc., by changing the client's cognition so that he or she can face reality correctly. Psychological, on the other hand, deals with internal personality issues and deals more with unconscious turns.

b) Contact. Psychological counseling and psychological ** are different stages of the same service process and can be used alternately at the same time. Sometimes it is difficult to distinguish exactly, and sometimes it is necessary to use psychological techniques in the process of psychological counseling, especially for severe psychological discomfort, anxiety, and the use of hypnosis, ****, etc.

After psychological **, psychological counseling is often required.

Psychological counseling is very closely related to psychology:

1) Psychological counseling and psychological counseling are both focused on emphasizing the establishment of good interpersonal relationships in the process of work.

2) The theories, methods, and principles followed by psychological counseling and psychology are the same.

There is still a difference between psychological counseling and psychological **:

1) The object of psychological counseling is mainly normal people with psychological confusion; The object of psychological ** is people with mental illness.

2) Psychological counseling follows a developmental and educational model; Psychological** follows the medical model of Youqi.

3) psychological counseling focuses on preventing and promoting mental health; Psychology focuses on remedial and corrective measures.