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The Two Faces of Counseling: Or is it Three?
Author(s) -
Super Donald E.
Publication year - 1993
Publication title -
the career development quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.846
H-Index - 53
eISSN - 2161-0045
pISSN - 0889-4019
DOI - 10.1002/j.2161-0045.1993.tb00425.x
Subject(s) - confusion , terminology , situational ethics , psychology , psychotherapist , psychological counseling , counseling psychology , applied psychology , social psychology , psychoanalysis , philosophy , linguistics
The nature of career counseling, counseling, and psychotherapy is considered, as is the use of the terms counseling and psychotherapy in the works of Carl Rogers as illustration of the cause of confusion in our terminology. It is suggested here that there are two kinds of counseling, situational and personal, and that these are not dichotomous but rather a continuum.