The principles of psychological counseling include confidentiality and time limit.
1. confidentiality principle: the fact that visitors come to the center to receive help should be kept confidential, and the conversation should also be kept confidential. If there are special circumstances, it is necessary to report the situation of visitors to the relevant departments.
2. Time limit principle: Psychological counseling needs to observe certain time limits. The time cost of each psychological consultation is generally 50 minutes, and the first consultation time can be appropriately extended, but the weekly consultation time frequency needs to be fixed. Unless there are special circumstances, the counseling time cannot be changed at will. In addition, it also includes the principles of understanding support and mentality cultivation.
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Psychological counseling refers to the process of using psychological methods to seek solutions for those who have problems in psychological adaptation. People who need to solve problems and come for help are called visitors or customers, and consultants who provide help are called consultants.
Visitors tell, ask and discuss their psychological discomfort or obstacles through language, writing and other communication media. With their support and help, we can find out the causes of psychological problems through discussion, analyze the crux of the problem, and then seek the conditions and countermeasures to get rid of the predicament and solve the problem, so as to restore psychological balance, improve the adaptability to the environment and improve physical and mental health.
There are broad and narrow interpretations of psychological counseling. Psychological counseling in a broad sense includes psychological counseling and psychotherapy, and sometimes psychological examination and psychological test are also listed as the scope of psychological counseling. Psychological consultation in a narrow sense does not include psychotherapy, psychological examination and psychological test, and is only limited to providing psychological assistance and consulting help to visitors through interviews, letters, internet and telephone calls.
According to the content of counseling, psychological counseling can be divided into development counseling and health counseling; According to the scale of consultation, it can be divided into individual consultation and group consultation; According to the forms of consultation, it can be divided into outpatient consultation, telephone consultation and network consultation.