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A generalist health service (HSP) specialty in
professional psychology that uses a broad
range of culturally-informed and
culturally-sensitive practices to help people
improve their well-being
Counseling Psychology
It focuses specifically but not exclusively on
normative life-span development, with a
particular emphasis on prevention and
education as well as amelioration,
Counseling Psychology
Counseling psychology has its earliest
historical roots in the ________ at the turn of the 20th century
vocational guidance
movement
focus on normative
developmental and mental health issues and
challenges faced by individuals across their
lifespan, as well as systemic challenges
Counseling psychologists
use strengths-based
perspective and practices to prevent and
ameliorate emotional, relational,
physical/health-related, social, cultural,
vocational, educational, and identity-related
problems
Counseling psychologist
➔ an infant profession in the early 1900s
Counseling
3 persons emerged as leaders in counseling
development:
★ Frank Parsons
★ Jesse B. Davis
★ Clifford Beers
★ Founder of Guidance Movement
➔ Frank Parsons
credited with being the first true
counselor
➔ Frank Parsons
★ first to envision the role of a counselor
or “vocopher” in helping people
choose professionals
Lysander S. Richards and Vocophy
★ brought vocational counseling into the
schools
Jesse B. Davis
➔ a procedure which involved using a stone tool
to chip away at a human skull until a circular
opening was created
Trephining
this opening is created in order to release an
evil spirit from the inflicting individual”s brain
Trephining
done by drilling a small hole in the temple on
each side of the skull, then the surgeon inserts
a dull knife on the brain, makes a fan-shape
incision through the prefrontal lobe, then
downward a few minutes later.
Prefrontal Lobotomy
➔ talking, expressing, verbalizing, or somehow
sharing one’s pain is, in and of itself,
potentially healing
Talking Cure
believes therapists
are more effective when they actively and
expertly teach their clients cognitive and
behavioral principles and skills
psychotherapy debate
As civilization developed,_________ , usually by priest who
would listen and advise parishioners on their
problems
religion offered a
type of counselling
German neurologist who developed a theory
later be called psychoanalysis, which allowed
individuals to tell their problems to a
psychoanalyst
Sigmund Freud
★ an individual trained in interpreting
the “subconscious”, that part of our
psyche that we are not aware of but
influences what we do.
psychoanalyst
developed the person-centered, also known
as Client-Centered
Carl R. Rogers
pioneering the field of clinical
psychological research
Carl R. Rogers
