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1 Counseling Psychology
Dehai Watkins

2 Definition A psychological specialty that facilitates personal and interpersonal functioning across the life span of an individual Focuses on social, vocational, emotional, educational, health-related, developmental, and organizational concerns.

3 How they help patients? Counseling Psychologist are considered to be generalist they are trained in a wide variety of therapeutic skills. Improve their overall well-being and alleviate distress. Attend to both normal developmental issues and problems associated with physical, emotional, and mental disorders.

4 Origin Became main-stream after the Second World War. Schools of therapy are Psychoanalytical, Behaviourist, and Humanistic.

5 The Role of Behaviour/Experience
Counseling Psychology falls under this role because it targets the patient and their overall state which influences there surroundings.(family, friends etc.)


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