How to apply for marriage and family counselors? What's the difference with a counselor?

Marriage and family counselor is a new industry in recent years, which mainly provides counseling and services for marriage and family problems, and cannot engage in psychological diagnosis and treatment involving diseases.

Psychological counselor: a professional who uses psychology and related knowledge, follows psychological principles, and helps clients solve psychological problems through psychological counseling techniques and methods. Need to pass the professional examination certification, the state will issue the corresponding grade integer. The scope of work of psychological counselors:

Psychological crisis intervention

Psychological counseling when a person encounters heavy psychological trauma and blow, such as the loss of ideal, goal and career, the accidental death of relatives, the deterioration of interpersonal relationship, etc., which leads to a sharp mental breakdown.

Consultation on life problems

Including love, marriage, family and sexual problems, the choice of further education and employment, maladjustment, learning difficulties, children's bad behavior, interpersonal problems, and mental health problems such as alcohol and drug dependence.

Psychosomatic disease consultation

Many physical diseases, such as hypertension, coronary heart disease, tumor, etc. It is also related to psychological and social factors, so psychological counseling can be carried out in time to relieve psychological pressure and prevent the aggravation of physical diseases.

Consultation on other issues

Such as family and group mental health problems, psychological counseling can also be carried out.

Generally speaking, psychological counselors can be marriage and family counselors, but marriage and family counselors can't be psychological counselors.

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