1. Describe how therapy and counseling differ from one another.
• Psychotherapy works with unconscious function, whereas counseling deals with erroneous thinking
(conscious).
• While psychotherapy solely addresses the past, counseling addresses both the past and the present.
• While psychotherapy treats patients with psychopathological disorders, counseling deals with people who are
normal.
• While psychotherapy may call for drugs, counseling does not.
• While in psychiatry you take the history of the client's experience to analyze their experience, in counseling
you explore emotions.
• While in psychiatry, patients may get psychoactive drug treatment, referrals for treatment are made when
necessary in counseling.
2. List four characteristics of a good counselor with a brief discussion of each. (8mrks)
• The capacity for listening is known as
• Psychotherapy works with unconscious function, whereas counseling deals with erroneous thinking
(conscious).
• While psychotherapy solely addresses the past, counseling addresses both the past and the present.
• While psychotherapy treats patients with psychopathological disorders, counseling deals with people who are
normal.
• While psychotherapy may call for drugs, counseling does not.
• While in psychiatry you take the history of the client's experience to analyze their experience, in counseling
you explore emotions.
• While in psychiatry, patients may get psychoactive drug treatment, referrals for treatment are made when
necessary in counseling.
2. List four characteristics of a good counselor with a brief discussion of each. (8mrks)
• The capacity for listening is known as
