- WHY to go to a psychologist?
- HOW to understand that it is time to see a specialist?
- HOW to determine who to go to: psychologist, psychiatrist, coach?
These questions often ask me
Great on the first two questions are answered by the attached picture.
I'd add the following:
- "everything Seems to be fine: my husband, family, wealth, children, and nothing pleases, living like a robot..."
"children problems: low academic performance, giperaktivnosti, lost contact with the child, he began to snap (often in adolescence), there were fears, poor sleep, often sick (ARI, asthma, allergies) ..."
many people turn to psychologists, when it is unbearable, there is no strength to endure, to live as before impossible...
do in order to improve the quality of life: to become richer, happier and more joyful etc.?
I do Not know, in my practice have not seen ...
But it is also the reason for the appeal to the psychologist or coach.
If You find yourself at least one of the reasons described in the post, go to the psychologist, can't go wrong. A qualified specialist will be sent to a psychiatrist or coach if necessary.
- HOW to determine who to go to: psychologist, psychiatrist, coach?
Let's first understand the differences between a psychologist, psychotherapist and psychiatrist.
a Psychiatrist is a doctor who has a medical degree, and received special training in the field of mental disorders. Interests of psychiatrists are mental disorders, diagnosis of these disorders, their dynamics, and the possibility of treatment.
a Professional psychologist called specialists with higher humanitarian education, who received the corresponding training in the field of applied and scientific psychology. Usually the counselor is improved in one or more directions of practical psychology, such as social psychology, child psychology or psychology of management.
the Therapist is a psychiatrist or psychologist who has received additional post-graduate education, and a specialist in the field of psychotherapeutic help. Training therapist can go two ways: eclectic education in which students learn the variety of methods and directions of psychotherapy, or a targeted training: specialization in psychodrama, psychoanalysis, existential psychotherapy, Gestalt therapy (like me, for example), etc.
unlike a psychiatrist, a clinical psychologist works primarily with the problems of mentally healthy people. In cases of serious mental illness may need a combination of psychiatric help and counseling.
the Main difference between a psychiatrist - only he has the right to appoint medical treatment. br>
Psychotherapy or coaching? br>Psychotherapy affects and solves the underlying problems of man, it longer. Working with a therapist focused on intrapersonal change, the study of psychological trauma, digestion, past experience and receipt of a new restoration of the lost or the creation of new internal resources. During psychotherapy a client learns to build new meaningful relationships, first with yourself and then with the people around him. Psychotherapy on average, it takes from a year to several years. br>Coaching aimed at solving urgent problems not the underlying issues. Working with a coach is the foreseeable future and aimed at achieving a specific result. Duration of work with a coach depends on the purpose pursued by the client: one coaching session, if the task is not particularly difficult or a few months, if goals are more ambitious. As a result of working with a coach the client not only achieve their goals, but also to teach the process of achieving goals.
the Second difference is the focus of the work.
Psychotherapy works primarily in the categories of past and present — looking for the causes of difficulties of the client in the past and trying to eliminate their influence on the present — where you are now and why you got here.
coaching the focus in the present and future — a coach is not interested in why the client got to where he is, his focus is on where the client is now and where he wants to be in the future. br>
So who to choose — a therapist or a coach? the
Focus on the problem you want to solve
If you are trying to put the pieces after a serious crisis situation, life is not happy, do not want anything and everything bad you in constant apathy, you are plagued by fears you are not satisfied with themselves, others, work, kids, life in General, are you sick and need love and support, or recognize yourself in one of the pictures — you to a therapist.
If you want to change jobs, increase income, start a business —this is Your true desire, there are resources and strong motivation, You need only a small pink and periodic support, then you are to coach. br>
I believe that psychotherapy and coaching complement each other!
They are focused on different problems, solve them partly in different ways, but globally and from psychotherapy, and coaching one goal — improving the quality of life of the client. Coaching helps through the goals, objectives and effectiveness, that is the RESULT. And psychotherapy, for example, Gestalt therapy implements this through awareness and new experience, that is, through the PROCESS. br>
Glad to help, ina.
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