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COUNSELING PSYCHOLOGY?             This is a question asked by most the students in this era to the professors including myself. One of my exams,  I was asked by a professor but I could not give him the exact answer of what is Counselling Psychology? Who can administer counseling and w hat is the role of clinical psychologist? Counseling is administered in most of the areas by Counsellors and others. During the pandemic period there were so many psychologists who came forward for free counseling to empower the humanity from the falls belief. To say that truth, so many people gave up their lives because they had no people to support or give them hope to live a life or march ahead.  So as a psychological Counsellor and Psychotherapist I have charted down the meaning of the question asked above. It is to know who plays what role and to clarify the doubts of budding psychologists.   The work of counseling Psychologis...

  Psychology?      To start with, the word 'Psychology' originated from two Greek terms 'psyche' and 'logus.' The term psyche referred to MIND. Logus referred to STUDY OF. So psychology was initially defined as the study of mind. Typical questions raised were 'what are the functions of the human mind?'. 'Where does the mind come from and how does it relate to the body?' The term mind was interpreted differently by various psychologists and different methodologies were used to explore the nature and functions of the MIND.      Till 19th century, the study of mind belonged to philosophy and the study of body was considered to be an appropriate subject for psychology. Today, mind and body are no longer considered separable and there seems to be a reasonable degree of unanimity among psychologists about the definition of psychology. (Anita Kumar, 1998)     From primitive people human beings have been curious about various aspects of the nature in...