What is counseling and psychotherapy? Counseling and psychotherapy are professional helping services provided by trained individuals who work with clients to heal and grow. They do so by assessing their clients’ issues and backgrounds and helping them set goals. They collaborate with their clients using a range of approaches.

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Psychotherapy The generic term for all forms of professionally-trained therapy that use talking as a primary means of healing Started with Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) Psychoanalysis: One-on-one method where the client talks and the therapist analyzes his or her problem based on their relationships with parents. Becomes the psychodynamic approach.

Psychology Academic discipline Wilhelm Wundt: Many kinds: the scientific study of the mind Wilhelm Wundt: 1879 first psychology lab, Germany Many kinds: behavioral, experimental, humanist, Gestalt, existentialist, cognitive, clinical, biological, social, developmental Accrediting body: The American Psychological Association

Social Work Grew out of women’s community work on poverty in the 1800s Mary Richmond: started using psychoanalysis Jane Addams: community organizations Ecological approach

Counseling Started with school and vocational counseling Developed own accrediting body Knowledge base always intertwined with psychology, social work Multicultural counseling: Communities of color objected to psychoanalytic approaches based on white European middleclass standards

New York State Licenses and Credentials Mental health practitioners: Masters’ degree level Creative Arts Therapists Marriage and Family Therapists Mental Health Counselors Psychoanalysts Psychologists: Education and Psychology academic departments. Doctoral degree level Social workers: Masters’ degree level Credentialed Alcohol and Substance Abuse Counselors (CASAC): High School level