Psychological counseling is a process in which psychological counselors use psychological knowledge, theories and methods to help visitors (visitors) relieve their emotional and behavioral troubles caused by psychological conflicts, maintain and improve their physical and mental health, and promote their personality development and potential development.
Generally speaking, customers can get all kinds of help:
1. Ways to help yourself control your emotions.
2. Help us to correctly understand ourselves and the world around us, improve the cognitive system, and avoid all kinds of failures caused by wrong regression.
3. It is conducive to cultivating a sound personality, eliminating bad attitudes such as inferiority, narcissism and autism, and investing in study, work and life with a healthy and positive attitude.
4. Teach you how to deal with all kinds of setbacks in life, such as life, interpersonal relationship, competition, unemployment and the pain brought by marriage.
5. Help to improve social adaptability.
6. Help to tide over various crises and safely complete the development task of life.
7. Exploring the future direction of self-development with visitors is helpful to correctly choose the major issues in life.
8. Help rebuild the ability to love and perceive happiness. Speaking of psychological counseling, many people think of the words "mental illness treatment" and show fear or anxiety. In fact, psychological counseling and psychotherapy are two different concepts.
The main differences between psychological counseling and psychotherapy include four aspects:
1, the goal of psychotherapy is patients. Psychological counseling is an abnormal person with psychological or mental illness; The object of psychological counseling is generally not patients, but sub-healthy people, but there are psychological conflicts.
2. The purpose of psychotherapy is to treat diseases. This needs to be carried out through treatment procedures, and it is a process that psychological clinicians with medical qualifications need to use the techniques and methods of clinical psychology to treat patients' psychological diseases. The purpose of psychological counseling is to help patients find problems and relieve psychological troubles by tapping their own abilities.
3. The relationship between psychotherapists and clients is the relationship between doctors and patients. The patient must follow the doctor's advice. However, the relationship between the counselor and the client is equal. The process of consultation is a process of discussion, research, expressing opinions and communicating with each other. ?
4. Psychotherapists need simpler information. Treatment can only be selected and implemented according to symptoms and signs. Psychological counselors need to master a lot of information and understand the personal, family, social environment and other aspects in order to help them develop their abilities and potentials.