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What if psychology and psychiatry do not hold all the answers to mental health? In this groundbreaking exploration, Counseling and Orientation redefines counseling as an independent field, interconnected with those disciplines yet distinct in its own philosophy and purpose. While counselors are trained in techniques, skills, and ethics, they often lack a foundational philosophy that goes beyond procedural norms, leaving the question: What does it truly mean to support human mental health and well-being?
This book challenges the assumptions underpinning the usual empirical grasp on mental health and questions whether it truly understands the “mind” it claims to address. Rather than merely accepting psychology’s and psychiatry’s abstract ideals, Counseling and Orientation proposes a new perspective—one that positions counseling as a discipline uniquely suited to address mental health directly, alongside and not subordinate to those more exclusively oriented disciplines.