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Counseling Psychology

Counseling psychology is akin to clinical psychology.  However, there are several important distinctions between the two.  First, counseling psychologists typically work in forums where the psychopathology is less severe—such as college and university counseling centers (though, this distinction is certainly being blurred with more doctoral level counseling psychologists holding positions traditionally held by doctoral level clinical psychologists.  Second, with clinical psychologists moving increasingly toward a more empirically supported (read Cognitive Behavioral  Therapy—CBT—or technical eclecticism) theoretical orientation (so-called ESTs), counseling psychologists are more likely to come from a client-centered or humanistic orientation (again, this distinction is somewhat blurred by the facts that, one, eclecticism generally utilizes a wide variety of techniques from various theoretical orientations—making it a metatheory—and, two, clinical psychologists hold a wide variety of theoretical orientations, including the client-centered or humanistic orientations).  Finally, counseling psychology focuses its attention on normative development, as well as physical, mental, and emotional dysfunction.  Still, as suggested by the above blurring of distinctions, counseling psychology and clinical psychology are becoming increasingly more similar, with counseling psychologists taking on traditionally clinical psychologist roles and vice versa.  As such, many believe that the two fields should be combined in to one. 

 

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