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Therapeutic modalities

  • Academic advising
    Academic advising
    Academic advising, based in the teaching and learning mission of higher education, is a series of intentional interactions with a curriculum, a pedagogy, and a set of student learning outcomes...

  • Behavioral Counseling (see Professional practice of behavior analysis
    Professional practice of behavior analysis
    The professional practice of behavior analysis is one domain of behavior analysis: others being behaviorism, experimental analysis of behavior and applied behavior analysis...

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  • Biblical counseling
  • Brief therapy
    Brief therapy
    Brief psychotherapy or Brief therapy is an umbrella term for a variety of approaches to psychotherapy. It differs from other schools of therapy in that it emphasises a focus on a specific problem and direct intervention...

  • Career counseling
    Career Counseling
    Career counseling and career coaching are similar in nature to traditional counseling. However, the focus is generally on issues such as career exploration, career change, personal career development and other career related issues. Typically when people come for career counseling they know exactly...

  • Christian counseling
    Christian counseling
    Christian counseling is counseling which draws upon psychology and Christian teaching. Efforts to combine counseling with Christian or other religious perspectives or approaches are sometimes called "integration."...

  • Co-counselling
    Co-counselling
    Co-counselling is a grassroots, low-cost method of personal change based on reciprocal peer counseling. It uses simple methods that can be seen as a refinement of "you tell me your problems and I'll tell you mine"...

  • Counseling psychology
    Counseling psychology
    Counseling psychology is a psychological specialty that encompasses research and applied work in several broad domains: counseling process and outcome; supervision and training; career development and counseling; and prevention and health...

  • Consultant (disambiguation)
    Consultant (disambiguation)
    Consultant may refer to one of the following:*Consultant, a professional who provides advice in a particular area of expertise*Public consultation, an often legally required process by which the public or affected parties may comment on major projects...

  • Credit counseling
    Credit counseling
    Credit counseling is a process that involves offering education to consumers about how to avoid incurring debts that cannot be repaid through establishing an effective Debt Management Plan and Budget...

  • Crisis hotline
    Crisis hotline
    A crisis hotline is a phone number people can call to get immediate emergency telephone counseling, usually by trained volunteers. Such hotlines have existed in most major cities of the United States at least since the mid-1970s. Initially set up to help those contemplating suicide, many have...

  • Disciplinary counseling
    Disciplinary counseling
    A disciplinary counseling session is a meeting between a supervisor and employee. It may focus on a specific work place incident, or in as the result of a performance appraisal. A particular aspect of the employee's performance may have been identified by the supervisor as requiring attention, or...

  • E-mail counseling
  • Ecological counseling
    Ecological counseling
    Ecological Counseling offers an approach to the conceptualization of human issues that integrates personal and environmental factors through focusing on their interaction. By doing so, the widely divergent forces that converge through the development of a human life may be organized into a logical...

  • Emotional therapy
  • Existential counselling
    Existential counselling
    Existential counselling is a philosophical form of counselling which addresses the situation of a person's life and situates the person firmly within the predictable challenges of the human condition. Existential counselling considers human living to take place within four dimensions: physical,...

  • Exit counseling
    Exit counseling
    Exit counseling, also termed strategic intervention therapy, cult intervention or thought reform consultation, is an intervention designed to persuade an individual to leave a group perceived to be a cult...

  • Genetic counseling
    Genetic counseling
    Genetic counseling or traveling is the process by which patients or relatives, at risk of an inherited disorder, are advised of the consequences and nature of the disorder, the probability of developing or transmitting it, and the options open to them in management and family planning...

  • Grief counseling
    Grief counseling
    Grief counseling is a form of psychotherapy that aims to help people cope with grief and mourning following the death of loved ones, or with major life changes that trigger feelings of grief ....

  • Grief therapy
  • Intervention (counseling)
    Intervention (counseling)
    An intervention is an orchestrated attempt by one, or often many, people to get someone to seek professional help with an addiction or some kind of traumatic event or crisis, or other serious problem. The term intervention is most often used when the traumatic event involves addiction to drugs...

  • Lay community counsellor
    Lay community counsellor
    A Lay Community Counsellor is a member of a community who is trained to provide a specific service or to perform certain limited activities within that community.-Transitory Communities:...

  • Licensed Professional Counselor
    Licensed Professional Counselor
    Licensed professional counselor is a licensure for mental health professionals. The exact title varies by state, but the other most frequently used title is licensed mental health counselor . Several U.S. states, including Illinois, Maine, and Tennessee, have implemented a two-tier system whereby...

  • Marriage counseling
  • Mental health counselor
    Mental Health Counselor
    Mental health counselors practice mental health counseling which is a dynamic, holistic, strengths-based and psychoeducational discipline born in the late 1970s when several mental health professionals realized that the master’s degree level counselors working in community settings lacked a...

  • Narrative therapy
    Narrative therapy
    Narrative Therapy is a form of psychotherapy using narrative. It was initially developed during the 1970s and 1980s, largely by Australian Michael White and his friend and colleague, David Epston, of New Zealand....

  • Navy Counselor
    Navy Counselor
    Navy Counselor is a United States Navy occupational rating.-General Description:Navy Counselors are concerned with recruiting, career information, and counseling. They are responsible for enlisted recruiting and career information programs, and supervise and coordinate interviewing and counseling...

  • Online counseling
    Online counseling
    Online counseling is the provision of professional mental health counseling services concerns via the Internet. Services are typically offered via email, real-time chat, and video conferencing...

  • Pastoral counseling
    Pastoral counseling
    Pastoral counseling is a branch of counseling in which psychologically trained ministers, rabbis, priests and other persons provide therapy services...

  • Peer counseling
  • Postvention
    Postvention
    A postvention is an intervention conducted after a suicide, largely taking the form of support for the bereaved . Family and friends of the suicide victim may be at increased risk of suicide themselves....

  • Pre-conception counseling
    Pre-conception counseling
    Pre-conception counseling is based on the medical theory that all women of child-bearing years should be pre-screened for health and risk potentials before attempting to become pregnant...

  • Pregnancy options counseling
    Pregnancy options counseling
    Pregnancy options counseling is a type of psychological counseling that occurs when a client comes in due to her stress and fears of pregnancy, usually an unwanted pregnancy. This type of counseling provides information and support for a pregnant woman who is considering choices regarding the...

  • Psychiatrist
    Psychiatrist
    A psychiatrist is a physician who specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders. All psychiatrists are trained in diagnostic evaluation and in psychotherapy...

  • Psychiatric and mental health nursing
    Psychiatric and mental health nursing
    Psychiatric nursing or mental health nursing is the specialty of nursing that cares for people of all ages with mental illness or mental distress, such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, psychosis, depression or dementia...

  • Psychiatric and mental health Nurse Practitioner
    Psychiatric and mental health Nurse Practitioner
    An Advanced Practice Psychiatric/Mental-Health Nurse Practitioner, PMHNP, provides a wide range of services to adults, children, adolescents, and their families in a primary care facility, outpatient mental health clinic, psychiatric emergency services, private practice, or in a hospital or...

  • Re-evaluation Counseling
    Re-evaluation Counseling
    Re-evaluation Counseling or RC is an organization founded by Harvey Jackins in the 1950s and led by him until his death in 1999. It introduced a procedure called "co-counseling", which Jackins said was a new and effective method of helping people and bringing about social reform. RC teaches...

  • Rehabilitation counseling
    Rehabilitation counseling
    Rehabilitation Counseling is focused on helping people who have disabilities achieve their personal, career, and independent living goals through a counseling process...

  • Relationship counseling
    Relationship counseling
    Relationship counseling is the process of counseling the parties of a relationship in an effort to recognize and to better manage or reconcile troublesome differences and repeating patterns of distress...

  • Relationship education
    Relationship Education
    Relationship education presents and promotes the principles and practices of premarital education, relationship resources, relationship restoration, relationship maintenance, and research-based marriage preparation.-History:...

  • School counselor
    School counselor
    A school counselor is a counselor and an educator who works in elementary, middle, and high schools to provide academic, career, college access, and personal/social competencies to K-12 students...

  • Social work
    Social work
    Social Work is a professional and academic discipline that seeks to improve the quality of life and wellbeing of an individual, group, or community by intervening through research, policy, community organizing, direct practice, and teaching on behalf of those afflicted with poverty or any real or...

  • Solution focused brief therapy
    Solution focused brief therapy
    Solution focused brief therapy , often referred to as simply 'solution focused therapy' or 'brief therapy', is a type of talking therapy that is based upon social constructionist philosophy. It focuses on what clients want to achieve through therapy rather than on the problem that made them seek help...

  • Suicide intervention
  • Telephone counseling
    Telephone counseling
    Telephone counseling refers to any type of psychological service performed over the telephone. Telephone counseling ranges from individual, couple or group psychotherapy with a professional therapist to psychological first aid provided by para-professional counselors...


  • Coaching mentoring intersections

    • Career coaching
    • Co-coaching
      Co-coaching
      Co-coaching is the structured practice of mutual exchange of coaching support among peers. This can take the form of a range of practices. One form involves each individual taking turns to be coach in half hour sessions.-References:* Nemko, Marty....

    • Coaching
      Coaching
      Coaching, with a professional coach, is the practice of supporting an individual, referred to as the client or mentee or coachee, through the process of achieving a specific personal or professional result....

    • Creativity coaching
    • Dating coaching
    • Empowerment
      Empowerment
      Empowerment refers to increasing the spiritual, political, social, racial, educational, gender or economic strength of individuals and communities...

    • Leadership
      Leadership
      Leadership has been described as the “process of social influence in which one person can enlist the aid and support of others in the accomplishment of a common task". Other in-depth definitions of leadership have also emerged.-Theories:...

    • Life coaching
    • Mentoring
      Mentoring
      Mentorship refers to a personal developmental relationship in which a more experienced or more knowledgeable person helps a less experienced or less knowledgeable person....

    • Mentorship
      Mentorship
      Mentorship refers to a personal developmental relationship in which a more experienced or more knowledgeable person helps a less experienced or less knowledgeable person....

    • Personal coaching
    • Systemic coaching

    Common areas

    • Conflict resolution
      Conflict resolution
      Conflict resolution is conceptualized as the methods and processes involved in facilitating the peaceful ending of some social conflict. Often, committed group members attempt to resolve group conflicts by actively communicating information about their conflicting motives or ideologies to the rest...

    • Conflict resolution research
      Conflict resolution research
      Conflict resolution is any reduction in the severity of a conflict. It may involve conflict management, in which the parties continue the conflict but adopt less extreme tactics; settlement, in which they reach agreement on enough issues that the conflict stops; or removal of the underlying causes...

    • Creative problem solving
      Creative problem solving
      Creative problem solving is the mental process of creating a solution to a problem. It is a special form of problem solving in which the solution is independently created rather than learned with assistance.Creative problem solving always involves creativity....

    • Dialogue
      Dialogue
      Dialogue is a literary and theatrical form consisting of a written or spoken conversational exchange between two or more people....

    • Dispute resolution
      Dispute resolution
      Dispute resolution is the process of resolving disputes between parties.-Methods:Methods of dispute resolution include:* lawsuits * arbitration* collaborative law* mediation* conciliation* many types of negotiation* facilitation...

    • Emotional conflict
      Emotional conflict
      "Emotional conflicts and the intervention of the unconscious are the classical features of...medical psychology" for C. G. Jung. Equally, 'Freud's concept of emotional conflict as amplified by Anna Freud...Erikson and others is central in contemporary theories of mental disorder in children,...

    • Experiential education
      Experiential education
      Experiential education is a philosophy of education that describes the process that occurs between a teacher and student that infuses direct experience with the learning environment and content. The term is mistakenly used interchangeably with experiential learning...

    • Family therapy
      Family therapy
      Family therapy, also referred to as couple and family therapy, family systems therapy, and family counseling, is a branch of psychotherapy that works with families and couples in intimate relationships to nurture change and development. It tends to view change in terms of the systems of...

    • Health psychology
      Health psychology
      Health psychology is concerned with understanding how biological, psychological, environmental, and cultural factors are involved in physical health and illness. Health psychologists work alongside other medical professionals in clinical settings, work on behavior change in public health promotion,...

    • Human Potential Movement
      Human Potential Movement
      The Human Potential Movement arose out of the social and intellectual milieu of the 1960s and formed around the concept of cultivating extraordinary potential that its advocates believed to lie largely untapped in all people...

    • Interpersonal communication
      Interpersonal communication
      Interpersonal communication is usually defined by communication scholars in numerous ways, usually describing participants who are dependent upon one another. It...

    • Intrapersonal communication
      Intrapersonal communication
      Intrapersonal communication is language use or thought internal to the communicator. It can be useful to envision intrapersonal communication occurring in the mind of the individual in a model which contains a sender, receiver, and feedback loop.-Definitions:...

    • Mediation
      Mediation
      Mediation, as used in law, is a form of alternative dispute resolution , a way of resolving disputes between two or more parties. A third party, the mediator, assists the parties to negotiate their own settlement...

  • Multitheoretical psychotherapy
    Multitheoretical Psychotherapy
    Multitheoretical psychotherapy is a new approach to integrative psychotherapy developed by Jeff E. Brooks-Harris and his colleagues at the University of Hawaii at Manoa...

  • Nonverbal communication
    Nonverbal communication
    Nonverbal communication is usually understood as the process of communication through sending and receiving wordless messages. Messages can be communicated through gestures and touch , by body language or posture, by facial expression and eye contact...

  • Nonviolent communication
    Nonviolent communication
    Nonviolent Communication is a communication process developed by Marshall Rosenberg beginning in the 1960s. NVC often functions as a conflict resolution process...

  • Problem solving
    Problem solving
    Problem solving is a mental process and is part of the larger problem process that includes problem finding and problem shaping. Consideredthe most complex of all intellectual functions, problem solving has been defined as higher-order cognitive process that requires the modulation and control of...

  • Reconciliation
    Reconciliation
    Reconciliation may variously refer to:* Bank reconciliation* Truth and reconciliation commission-Religion:* Sacrament of Penance , also known as Reconciliation...

  • Relationship education
    Relationship Education
    Relationship education presents and promotes the principles and practices of premarital education, relationship resources, relationship restoration, relationship maintenance, and research-based marriage preparation.-History:...

  • Responsibility assumption
    Responsibility assumption
    Responsibility assumption is a doctrine in the personal growth field holding that each individual has substantial or total responsibility for the events and circumstances that befall them in their life...

  • Self-help
    Self-help
    Self-help, or self-improvement, is a self-guided improvement—economically, intellectually, or emotionally—often with a substantial psychological basis. There are many different self-help movements and each has its own focus, techniques, associated beliefs, proponents and in some cases, leaders...

  • Social psychology (psychology)
  • Social psychology (sociology)
    Social psychology (sociology)
    Social psychology , known as sociological social psychology, and sometimes as psychological sociology, is an area of sociology that focuses on social actions and on interrelations of personality, values, and mind with social structure and culture...

  • Stress management
    Stress management
    Stress management is the alteration of stress and especially chronic stress often for the purpose of improving everyday functioning.Stress produces numerous symptoms which vary according to persons, situations, and severity. These can include physical health decline as well as depression. According...

  • Transtheoretical Model
    Transtheoretical Model
    The Transtheoretical Model of Behavior Change assesses an individual's readiness to act on a new healthier behavior, and provides strategies, or processes of change to guide the individual through the stages of change to action and maintenance....


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