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Guidance, counseling and psychotherapy contains many branches, however they are nothing without their limitation. According to what I’ve understood, guidance is the process to helping people or individual. When we talk about helping, it is not necessary help in the terms of materials. It can be advices or something makes people appreciate themselves. Guidance means we guide the people or individual to make important choices that can affect their life style. We guide them so that they can do the best decision before go to the next step. For example in school the academic adviser will help student make decisions such as deciding course of study. The New York state Teacher Association published a report in 1935; defined guidance is the process of assisting individuals in making life adjustment. It can be anywhere such as in the home, school, community, at work and many more.

The next one is counseling. There are similarity between guidance and counseling but not totally the same because there are little but different. The similarity is the goal. The goal for both of these is to help people to solve their problem or help people so that that individual can gain more insight about his or her problem. The differences are counseling more to the specific task or topic and only certain person can be a counselor. But guidance is opposite, because all people can guide someone as long as he or she has that experienced. In certain agencies counseling defined to describe information and advices given on a particular topic, such as a healthcare issues and family planning. Other than that, counseling is an art of skills because many professions can use the counseling skills.

But keep remember here, someone who give an advise is not necessary a counselor. Because to be a counselor you must qualified in certain study field. For example counseling skills can be used by a nurse, teacher, manager, person and colleague. Counseling is a profession that deals with personal, social, vocational, empowerment and educational. Normally people who came to the counselor are not sick but they are stuck in their problems. They need somebody to help them in order to ease their problem. Their problem required short term intervention and sometimes long term intervention. This depends to the problem faced by the individual.

The frameworks for counseling are personal support, development support, problem solving and therapeutic counseling. Personal support indicates to the concern and support. That means the expression of our feeling. In the other hand, in development support, we will offer information to them. For problem solving, we have to develop suitable skills and knowledge base. This will provide a platform for helpful encounter. The last one is therapeutic counseling, this not only provide support, information or skill to enable the resolution but goes futures.

The third one that I want to discuss is psychotherapy. Compared to the two topics that we’d discuss just know it’s more to the supporting the emotional or mental process. For this third topic, it is focuses on serious problems associated intra-psychic, internal and personal issues and conflicts. However there are similarities between those three things. Such as all of these required us to solve the problem, make decision and plan of action. Example of situation involved is treatment of mental process. The therapy is providing in both outpatient and inpatient settings.

This usually includes increasing individual sense of well-being and reducing subjective discomforting experience. Psychotherapists employ a range of techniques based on experiential relationship building, dialogue, communication and behavior change and that are designed to improve the mental health of a client or patient, or to improve group relationships (such as in a family).

As a conclusion all these three terms are related each other but providing different methods of helping people. However the main goal is the same, it is to help people to solve their problem or to make it easier to solve. All the methods used are related to the mental and physical of human.