Pages: 71-84 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.55086/PRFCMCX7184

Counseling focuses on aspects of self-knowledge and the optimal development of one’s own resources. It is especially addressed to healthy people in difficulty or to those who want to improve their relationships with others. The counselor helps the client to control a crisis situation and assists him in finding a solution to the problem he is facing. It usually involves fewer sessions than psychotherapy and addresses less severe disorders.
Counseling is informative and focuses on the development of practical or personal skills. Counseling aims at self-knowledge, optimization and personal development and effective adaptation of the client to the external environment with the help of counselling.
Counselors are psychologists specialized in counseling who intervene through typical means in order to optimize and stimulate self-knowledge and personal development, to prevent some emotional and cognitive and behavioral problems.

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Olga Groiță. Moldova