1. What is counseling and psychotherapy?
Counseling and psychotherapy are professional helping services provided by trained individuals who work with clients to heal and grow. They do so by assessing their clients’ issues and backgrounds and helping them set goals. They collaborate with their clients using a range of approaches.

2. Therapy Professions
Social Worker Psychologist Counselor Do you know more? List them here:

3. Psychotherapy
The generic term for all forms of professionally-trained therapy that use talking as a primary means of healing
Started with Sigmund Freud ( )
Psychoanalysis: One-on-one method where the client talks and the therapist analyzes his or her problem based on their relationships with parents. Becomes the psychodynamic approach.

4. Psychology Academic discipline Wilhelm Wundt: Many kinds:
the scientific study of the mind
Wilhelm Wundt:
1879 first psychology lab, Germany
Many kinds:
behavioral, experimental, humanist, Gestalt, existentialist, cognitive, clinical, biological, social, developmental
Accrediting body:
The American Psychological Association

5. Social Work Grew out of women’s community work on poverty in the 1800s
Mary Richmond: started using psychoanalysis
Jane Addams: community organizations
Ecological approach

6. Counseling Started with school and vocational counseling
Developed own accrediting body
Knowledge base always intertwined with psychology, social work
Multicultural counseling:
Communities of color objected to psychoanalytic approaches based on white European middleclass standards

7. New York State Licenses and Credentials
Mental health practitioners: Masters’ degree level
Creative Arts Therapists
Marriage and Family Therapists
Mental Health Counselors
Psychoanalysts
Psychologists: Education and Psychology academic departments. Doctoral degree level
Social workers: Masters’ degree level
Credentialed Alcohol and Substance Abuse Counselors (CASAC): High School level