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Counseling Psychology

Health and Mental Health Treatment and Prevention

Counseling psychology is the branch of psychology, a generalist health service specialty in professional psychology, that uses a broad range of culturally informed practices to help people of all ages address emotional, social, vocational and developmental concerns and improve their well-being across the lifespan.

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Central Question
How can psychological principles help ordinary people cope with the everyday emotional, social, vocational and developmental challenges of life, not only diagnosed mental illness? 1
Key Debate
Whether counseling psychology's traditional focus on normal development and wellness remains meaningfully distinct in practice from clinical psychology's focus on diagnosing and treating psychopathology, given how closely the two fields' training and day-to-day work have converged. 1
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Carl Rogers, Psychologists

Person-centered therapy is a core model taught and practiced in counseling psychology specifically.

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1. Wikipedia: Counseling Psychology
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    a generalist health service specialty in professional psychology that uses a broad range of culturally informed practices to help people improve their well-being.
  • Counseling psychology and other counseling section
    As much as their practitioners did many of the same things, clinical psychology came to focus on treating abnormal psychology issues, while counseling psychology came to focus on addressing normal psychology matters.
Carl Rogers
Wikimedia FoundationIncludes: Carl Rogers, Biography section (Ohio State appointment)
Quote, Includes: Carl Rogers, Biography section (Ohio State appointment)
In 1940, Rogers became professor of clinical psychology at Ohio State University, where he wrote his second book, Counseling and Psychotherapy (1942).
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