If you want to enter the psychological industry, you can consider the certificate of psychotherapist. The following is the difference between a psychotherapist's certificate and a psychotherapist's certificate. Psychotherapists and psychotherapists have two important similarities and similarities:
First, both of them are important professional (or professional) groups in the social psychological service system, and they are also professional groups in the social psychological service system. At the same time, the professional quality, knowledge structure and skills of psychological counselors and psychotherapists are very close.
Second, their psychological knowledge is very similar to modern psychological technology. For example, China Mental Health Association has a professional committee called "Professional Committee for Psychological Counseling and Psychotherapy".
There are several important differences between psychological counselors and psychotherapists:
1, their professional characteristics are different.
People who have obtained the qualification certificate of national second-class psychological counselor can go to psychological counseling institutions in industrial and commercial registration. The psychotherapist qualification certificate is currently classified as the health professional technical qualification certificate. According to the document of 10, psychotherapists can set up psychological institutions to do psychological consultation and psychological intervention in the future. Psychological counselors are important defenders of mental health, while psychotherapists are the last gatekeepers of mental health.
2. Their social responsibilities are different.
In the social psychological service system, psychological counselors serve healthy people without psychological barriers and help visitors solve existing psychological problems through consultation. Psychotherapists have the same social responsibility as counselors, but their main responsibility is to provide psychotherapy and psychological intervention for patients with psychological disorders.
3. The gold content of the two certificates is different.
The professional qualification of psychological counselors has withdrawn from the national vocational examination catalogue, but psychotherapists remain in the national vocational examination certificate series. Psychological counseling is a self-funded item regulated by the market, and psychotherapy is a medical insurance reimbursement item. With the rapid growth of psychotherapists in the future, accepting reimbursable psychotherapy in medical institutions will definitely exceed self-funded psychological counseling in psychological institutions.
They work in different ways.
Psychological counselors are mostly in private institutions, schools, institutions and communities. And they all work in a "one-on-one" way. Psychotherapists must be carried out in medical institutions and form a team with clinicians, nurses, pharmacists and rehabilitation therapists to provide "many-to-one" treatment for patients with mental and psychological disorders or psychosomatic diseases.
5. There are different ways to get customers.
Psychological counselors mainly rely on the operation of psychological institutions or the personal acquisition of psychological counselors. Psychotherapists are in medical institutions and don't worry about no visitors. Medical institutions are rich in visiting case resources, and the improvement of psychotherapy technology is much faster than that of being a psychological counselor.
6. They grew up in different environments.
In psychological institutions, a young psychological counselor is unlikely to have insight into the realistic scene of psychological counseling, and many of them rely on teachers to simulate teaching. In medical institutions, psychotherapy is an environment in which more assistants and young psychotherapists participate. Relatively speaking, medical institutions have more advantages for the growth environment of psychotherapists.
7. Their social roles are different.
Although both belong to psychologists, psychological counselors belong to social workers and psychotherapists belong to medical staff. The mental health law has strict distinctions and restrictions. Psychotherapy belongs to medical activities, but psychological counseling is not.
In 20 17, psychological counselors withdrew from the national vocational qualification examination catalogue, and the number of people who obtained the qualification of psychological counselors in China exceeded10.2 million; Because psychotherapists belong to the professional and technical qualification examination under the influence of planned economy system (commonly known as "professional title" examination), there are about 6000 people who have obtained the professional and technical qualification of psychotherapists in China at present.