Unit 1- history and term Flashcards
What is the main difference between counselling and psychotherapy?
Context- the process determines what the professional is doing
What are the main factors that differentiate therapy from counselling?
- theoretical approach
- licensing demands/requirements
- employer demands
- history of the client
What is the largest division amongst psychologists?
therapy vs cllg issue
Why is it important to understand the inconsistencies between the terms?
Reduces confusion:
- amongst students and subsequent research
- cllr trainees
- customers/clients re exactly what is offered
What is guidance?
- general term for advice re what to do, how to do it, deal with problems
- focused on solving a problem
What is counselling?
- set of ways a helper helps someone
- includes specifying the activity and structure of interaction
- developmentally and holistically oriented
- focused on problem-solving
What is psychotherapy?
- term based on legacy
- more applicable to treatments
- problems defined by therapist
- more likely medical model
- for deep maladaptive behaviours
- focused more on problem-solving
What are the main similarities between the approaches?
- communication process where professionals help clients with choices
- common goal of client finishing with more self/situational knowledge
- common assumptions re helping
- client makes ultimate decision, has responsibility
- same microskills
- involve relationship
What are the main differences between the approaches?
- guidance has expert giving advice
- guidance is situationally focused
- cllg skillset oriented to making decisions, not specific issues
- cllg and psycho focus on ability and beyond
- cllg more short -term
- psychotherapy more long-term
- relative to professional
- therapy used by psychologists and psychiatrists (medical)
- DSM users treatment and therapy
Which practice helps identify and choose values over making changes?
Guidance
What are the most common presenting issues?
- developmental issues
- overcoming specific problems
- coping better with crisis situation
- improving relationships w others
- overcoming feelings of inner conflict
What are the core values of cllg?
1- client’s strengths and own ability to make personal changes
2- holistic and client centered focus
3- sensitivity to diversity and multiculturalism
What is social work?
- helps individuals, families, groups and communities enhance individual and collective well being
- helps people dev skills and solve problems
- social justice and advocacy
- relationship as basis for intervention and respect of client choice
What were the two movements that came to Canada from the US and sparked cllg?
- mental health movement (Clifford Beers)
- vocational guidance movement (Frank Parsons)
What was Parson’s theory for choosing vocation?
- knowledge of work
- knowledge of self
- matching the two through true reasoning