Counseling
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The word '''counseling''' (or '''counselling''') comes from the Middle English ''counseil'', from Old French ''conseil'', from Latin ''cōnsilium''; akin to ''cōnsulere'', to take counsel, consult.<ref>American Heritage Dictionary, 4th ed.</ref> Counseling can be defined as a relatively short-term, interpersonal, theory-based process of helping persons who are fundamentally psychologically healthy resolve developmental and situational issues.<ref>Gladding, S. T. (1996).Counseling: A Comprehensive Profession, Third Edition.</ref>
There are probably as many definitions of counseling as there are practitioners to describe it. The term was originally used by [[Frank Parsons]] in 1908. It was adopted by [[Carl Rogers]] in response to widespread prejudice in the U.S. against lay therapists and also because he was not then permitted by the psychiatry profession to call himself a [[psychotherapy|psychotherapist]].{{Fact|date=January 2008}} The difference between definitions of counseling and psychotherapy is less significant than the practitioners' perceptions of their [[raison d'être]].
==References==
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==See also==
* [[List of counseling topics]]
*[[American Counseling Association]]
*[[British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy]]
*[[Counseling psychology]]
*[[Psychotherapy and Counselling Federation of Australia]]
*[[Australian Counselling Association]]
*[[School Counseling]]
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