Counseling versus psychotherapy?
Vol.8,No.1(2014)
The text seeks to answer the question whether it is possible to distinguish meaningfully between counseling and psychotherapy. The analysis is based on a review of available literature defining the differences between psychotherapy and counseling, and on disputation with this literature. The author examines the differences in three areas - the aim, the method and the object of work –and brings arguments which put these differences into question. In conclusion,he presents a model that allows us to look at the differences between the two disciplines at three different levels and thus brings some structure to an otherwise confusing issue.
Tomáš Řiháček, Department of Psychology, Faculty of Social Studies, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic e-mail: rihacek@fss.muni.cz
counseling; method; profession; psychotherapy
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