, but counselors will asses with a different purpose and application of results. The counselor will focus on strengths and weaknesses and implications for social living. For example, occupational information is helpful in educational-vocational settings. Counselors advise their clients. Training for the counselor is based on special knowledge in affairs such as jobs, study skills, educational opportunities, and normative information (Hahn, pp. 280-281).
The counseling psychologist is concerned with the client and not the patient. Learning theory for the counselor is based on the cognitive, intellectual, and rational levels. Counselors help clients change attitudes with techniques that are based on normative approaches. They deal with anxieties that are at interfering levels rather than when disintegration is indicated. They help the client beyond the office door with a complete counseling process. Counselors focus on positive psychological strengths and their use instead of diagnosing and remedying psychopathies. A unique single function for the counselor is their skill with assessment and appraisal of human traits for educational-vocational-social living (Hahn, pp. 282).
The counseling profession includes a collection of professionals and paraprofessionals. Counseling is a helping profession. Helping conditions may be complex however, they include someone seeking help, someone willing to give help who is capable or trained to help, and a setting permitting help to be given and received. Settings in which counselors work can vary, they tend to be located close to specific target populations that are to be helped. Counseling can take place in school, community, religious, industrial, and health care settings. Other areas include marriage and family therapy, and rehabilitation, correctional institution, employment, and geriatric counseling. Counselors need interpersonal skills, discrimination and conceptual skill...