About Counseling

In scientific fields, to define certain things, by the rules, should be the most general language to say that the essence of things. Therefore, to define psychological counseling, and only one sentence: "psychological counseling (psychological consultations) is a psychologist seeking help solve various psychological problems to help the process."

If the more complete that the concept of counseling: "psychologists use psychological principles and methods to help callers find their own problems and root causes so as to uncover their own potential capacity seeking help to change the existing cognitive structure and behavior to improve the adaptability of life and ability to regulate the environment. "

The concept of psychological counseling in a broad sense and narrow sense, broad concept that covers a variety of clinical intervention methods or means; narrow concept mainly refers to non-standardization of clinical interventions. In other words, the generalized "psychological counseling," the concept, including a "narrow psychological counseling" and "psychological treatment" these two types of clinical techniques.

Counseling through language and text media object to the consultation to help, inspiration, hints and education process. Psychological counseling can enable the Advisory object in awareness, feelings and attitudes have changed Shang, Jie Jue Qi in Xuexi, work, Sheng Huo, disease and rehabilitation psychological problems / Zhang Ai to promote the object of self-adjustment of consultation, which allows for better adapt to the environment, maintain physical and mental health. In order to achieve interactive timeliness, authenticity, often require workers to seek consultation and advice with each other. Consulting workers are those who seek a friend and psychological consultation, then the listener, but a visitor who seek consultation. If possible, consult workers to help with scenario construction.

Operational definition of psychological counseling, all times of the different scholars have different view. Humanistic psychologists believe Rogers, and individual counseling through the continuous, direct contact, to provide psychological help and trying to promote its behavior and attitude change process. China's Ma Jianqing in its "life guidance - counseling study" in that counseling is defined as the application of relevant theories and methods of psychological science, by addressing the advice object (ie visitors) the psychological problems (including the development of psychological problems and obstacles of psychological problems), to maintain and promote physical and mental health, personality development and the potential for the development process. We believe that to attract a variety of different views of the rational core, according to a high degree of abstraction and generality to the next definition: Psychological Consultation, counselors to help callers address the process of psychological problems.