What is the difference between counseling, psychotherapy, and psychological intervention? How long does it take to solve a problem?

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Reading time is about ( 5 minutes for the main chapters) 01, There is a difference between counseling and psychotherapy 02, Psychological Intervention Techniques for Deeper Memory 03, How long does it usually take for our systematic in-depth psychological intervention? Many patients will often ask after contacting their families and our counseling assistants. You have repeatedly mentioned that you use systematized deep psychological interventions in your clinic. This includes psychological intervention techniques under deep hypnosis, as well as intensive cognitive interventions.

How does this "psychological intervention" differ from counseling and psychotherapy? This is explained in more detail below.

01, there is a difference between counseling and psychotherapy. In fact, strictly speaking, there is a difference between counseling and psychotherapy. There's also a difference between a counselor and a psychotherapist that many people just don't know about.

First of all, the qualification review unit of psychological counselor and psychological therapist is different, the former is the domestic authoritative psychological institutions or societies, the latter is the Ministry of Health.

By the end of 2017, the qualification examination and certificate for psychological counselors will be organized and issued by the State Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, one of the professions recognized by the State Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security.

People with a university degree or above in psychology or related majors can apply for the exam; people who are not psychology-related majors but have a bachelor's degree can also apply for the exam after relevant training to reach the required standard hours.

In 2017, the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Affairs organized the qualification examination for psychological counselors to be abolished (those who have obtained a certificate are still valid), and the qualification for the examination was transferred to psychological industry associations, social organizations, enterprises and institutions.

In the past two years, the more authoritative psychological counseling-related certificates include the Certificate of Professional Competence Course for Counselors issued by the Chinese Psychological Association, and the certificate issued after the psychological counseling training program conducted by the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

In general, the counseling industry has a low barrier to entry, both in the past and now.

The advantage of this is that talented members of the community who are not psychologists but are competent and qualified can join the profession.

But the disadvantages are also obvious, that is, the quality of psychological counselors vary, the whole industry is mixed, resulting in many irregularities.

In 2019, CCTV released "Investigation of Chaos in the Psychological Counseling Industry", which found that some psychological counseling agencies in society maliciously delayed the consultation time and induced visitors to overconsume.

If consumers wish to get a refund or defend their rights, individual organizations threatened to disclose private recordings made during counseling.

And after just a few months of theoretical training, the "counselors" who come out of the training program often have little understanding of psychology and many misconceptions if they lack real-world experience, continuous active learning, and a wealth of life experience and deep insights.

From some patients and their families, it was found that the "counseling methods" used by many counselors are ironic and clearly violate the principles of psychology and the ethics of counseling.

Psychotherapists have always been subject to stringent qualifications and barriers to entry.

In terms of status, psychotherapists are health professionals.

That is to say, psychotherapists, like nurses and doctors, are medical professionals.

Pictured here is a network psychotherapist organized and audited by the National Ministry of Health, the applicant must be a person engaged in the work of psychotherapy within the medical and health institutions.

Candidates' educational background is usually in a medical-related specialty, such as medicine, nursing or clinically relevant psychology.

Also, the theory is that counselors and psychotherapists have different audiences.

The target of a counselor is mainly people with mental sub-health and people with general psychological problems.

Ordinary people face the pressure of family, school, career, marriage, and produce some psychological confusion and pain, looking for is usually a psychological counselor.

They do not meet the criteria for being diagnosed with psychosomatic disorders.

So, most of the psychological counselor's work units are social psychological counseling agencies, schools, enterprises and institutions, community grass-roots units, etc., professional services.

Psychotherapists work in medical institutions and face patients diagnosed with psychosomatic disorders.

They provide psychotherapy to patients under the guidance of psychiatrists to speed up their recovery.

In most psychiatric departments, medication is the mainstay, with psychotherapy playing a supporting and secondary role.

Of course, the above is only a theoretical state of affairs.

Currently, there are not enough psychotherapists in domestic hospitals to meet the needs of the majority of patients.

So the hospital will also be open to the community to hire excellent professional psychological counselors to provide services to patients with psychosomatic disorders.

But this still does not meet the demand for clinical psychological services.

So many psychiatrists, after evaluation, recommend in their medical prescriptions that patients receive psychological services such as "psychological consultation" and "counseling".

With this medical advice, patients and their families can go out into the community to find a suitable counselor.

If the psychiatrist does not write the relevant medical advice, it may be that the patient's current condition is not considered suitable for psychological services, or that the doctor believes that counseling/psychotherapy is not effective.

If a patient or family member wants to go to counseling on their own, it is best to get in touch with the doctor and have them write down the instructions when they receive them.

Psychosocial counselors administering counseling to patients may strictly result in a violation of the law if the physician has not issued instructions to that effect.

Of course, counselors and psychotherapists have the following **** in common. First, under our mental health laws, neither counselors nor psychotherapists can diagnose patients or have prescriptive authority.

Only psychiatrists can diagnose and prescribe.

Generally, psychotherapists/counselors working in hospitals assist psychiatrists in administering psychotherapy rather than making a patient's diagnosis.

Of course, some psychiatrists qualify as psychotherapists/counselors themselves, becoming dual status. This, of course, allows them to diagnose and prescribe.

But there is a small minority of psychosocial counselors who violate the law by "diagnosing" individuals who come to them for counseling.

This is a serious offense, and patients and families are urged to be vigilant.

I would like to re-emphasize that only psychiatrists are qualified to diagnose and prescribe psychiatric disorders.

Secondly, there is a big difference between the "identity" of counseling and psychotherapy, but essentially, the theory, technique, and form of counseling/psychotherapy utilized by both are basically the same.

Photo from the Internet, both psychological counseling and psychotherapy. The country is currently dominated by psychoanalytic therapy, cognitive-behavioral therapy ( CBT ) and humanistic schools, as well as hypnotherapy and so on.

In recent years, the use of positive thinking therapy in the third generation of cognitive behavioral therapy is also increasing.

Counseling and psychotherapy are also available in one-on-one, group therapy, and family therapy.

So, from this point of view, if the psychosocial counselors are professionally regulated, have high personal qualities, and are experienced in psychological counseling, they may have a greater positive effect on the visitors and patients than the psychotherapists in the medical institutions.

Because medical institutions treat psychosomatic disorders mainly using drugs and physical therapy, psychotherapy is auxiliary, and some hospitals do not even accept psychotherapy.

We saw Liu Ke, a college student with depression. She went to the Sixth Hospital of Peking University, the country's top psychiatric specialty hospital, with her father several times from 2018 to 2019, and the effect of medication was unsatisfactory.

Her father found a reliable psychotherapist for his daughter and was surprised to find that Beida Sixth Hospital had no relevant services at the time! Of course, it's uncertain whether Peking University Sixth Hospital had a psychotherapy service at the time, but weak psychotherapy in most hospital psychiatry departments in the country is a common phenomenon.

Medical institution psychotherapists in the medical institution status is lower than psychiatrists, patients psychological counseling and psychotherapy costs are difficult to reimbursement, psychotherapists get a low economic returns, low sense of accomplishment at work, difficult to receive good continuing education and training in psychology, easy to career exhaustion state, a number of factors lead to lack of motivation to work, to provide

On the other hand, the social Counselors generally charge higher fees, in order to gain the trust of visitors and maintain income, they improve their business skills by attending training and studying related courses.

Combined with the abundance of social counseling resources and the convenience of booking appointments for the general public, many people tend to go to non-medical institutions for psychological counseling instead.

Of course, there are benefits to psychotherapy in a medical facility.

They have psychiatric resources and backgrounds, and if a patient is more seriously ill and has an acute attack of emotional symptoms while receiving psychological services, the psychiatrist can take timely action to guard against danger.

02. Psychological intervention techniques that go deep into the implicit memoryWe have often emphasized that our systematic in-depth psychological interventions are very different from general psychological counseling/psychotherapy.

Why is this so? Academically, there is no very clear concept or definition of psychological intervention, and the main approach is to address a variety of psychological problems and psychosomatic disorders, and to utilize psychological theories and techniques to restore the physical and mental health of the visitor.

Thus, psychological intervention in the broad sense includes psychological counseling and psychotherapy.

In a narrow sense, psychological counseling and psychotherapy are based on traditional psychological theories and techniques to deal with the visitor's psychological problems and psychosomatic symptoms at the level of his external memory.

In layman's terms, it is the analysis and processing of the patient's memories and feelings.

General counseling and psychotherapy often takes time, from a few months to several years or even a decade.

In addition, meta-analyses based on clinical practice studies have shown that the effective factor in long-term counseling and therapy is not any one technique or school of thought, but rather the long-term companionship, psychological support, and rational guidance of counseling and psychotherapists under the premise that visitors have full trust in them

This research finding is also endorsed by many psychological stakeholders.

Our psychological intervention under deep hypnosis is based on the latest brain science and cognitive neuroscience theories, especially the theory of pathological memory and memory re-enforcement, which mainly includes Trauma Repair Technique under Deep Hypnosis ( TPTIH ), Pathological Memory Repair Technique under Deep Hypnosis ( TPMIH ) and Conditioned Reflection Reconstruction Technique under Deep Hypnosis ( CRRDH ).

The Deep Hypnosis Trauma Repair Technique ( TPTIH ) and the Deep Hypnosis Pathological Memory Repair Technique ( TPMIH ) can penetrate into the patient's implicit memory level, i.e., accurately recall forgotten but symptom-inducing pathological memories (psychological trauma and pathologically positive emotional experiences) at the memory level

If they are effectively repaired under deep hypnosis, these pathological memories corresponding symptoms will be rapidly and dramatically relieved, and can even disappear completely in a short period of time.

And in-depth discussion of these pathological memories found under deep hypnosis at the level of patients and consciousness, prompting them to have a more reasonable and in-depth understanding of the relationship between these events and their own symptoms, from which they can form a more positive cognition, enhance the ability of self-reflection, and form a more frustrated and more courageous adversity quotient.

While the patient's cognitive level of exploration of images originating from the Internet is not mainstream cognitive-behavioral therapy, which is tentatively referred to as cognitive interventions for reinforcement.

Because we have pinpointed the specific pathologic memory, enhanced cognitive interventions can be more targeted, and the patient's feelings and perceptions will be deeper, perceptions and even feelings.

When we give feedback to the patient's parents, the parents are often y moved and even enlightened, giving us a clear understanding of the root cause of the patient's symptoms and psychological activities, as well as a deeper understanding of the reasons why their own behaviors have caused harm to their children.

We take this opportunity to encourage parents to more y self-reflect on change and improvement, and if necessary, to sincerely apologize to the child. Frequent acknowledgement and gratitude from parents tends to improve family relationships and parent-child relationships.

In other words, the level of memorization achieved by our clinical psychological intervention techniques is deeper and much shorter overall.

This is significantly different from general counseling/psychotherapy.

Combined with this, the term "counseling" is prone to be called a literalism. It seems to be about the counselor ****ing with the visitor and the patient, listening, and giving appropriate advice. Some families are referred to as "chatting".

In addition, many patients and family members who try traditional counseling is considered ineffective or completely ineffective is also an objective problem.

Psychological support is available to some adolescent patients when they first receive counseling.

The counselor will listen to me carefully and attentively. Some of them can also be very good at generating ****.

This does help patients release negative emotions to some extent.

But over time, many teenage patients will find it hard to get to the root of the problem and become frustrated or resist counseling.

Psychotherapy has been carried out within medical institutions, but in practice, the psychological theories on which it is based and the techniques it employs are not fundamentally different from psychological counseling, and it is unable to accurately locate the psychological root causes behind the symptoms and make effective repairs, so results are found to be slow.

Trauma repair technology under deep hypnosis ( TPTIH ) and pathological memory repair technology under deep hypnosis ( TPMIH ) are more different.

The therapeutic effect is not significantly improved without the patient over-consulting us and releasing negative emotions prior to the implementation of this technique.

What's more, many patients with early pathological memories have already forgotten them.

So, we can easily communicate with the patient to understand the general symptoms, patient's doubts and recovery goals, and enter the trauma repair and pathological memory repair stage under deep hypnosis after a simple theory, technique introduction and hypnotic sensitivity test clearance.

Therefore, the term "psychological intervention" is used in order to make a clear distinction from previous counseling/psychotherapy.

In addition, many patients try counseling/psychotherapy but lose confidence in it if it is not effective. If they have suffered secondary damage from counseling/psychotherapy, they may become bored and even reject it.

So, another reason for us to use "psychological intervention" is that once this group of patients get to know us, they will mistake it for general counseling/psychotherapy, so as not to cause resistance and rejection.

This is really not conducive to building a trusting relationship.

In fact, the naming, definition and categorization of our core techniques - Deep Hypnosis Trauma Repair Technique ( TPTIH ) and Deep Hypnosis Pathological Memory Repair Technique ( TPMIH ) have not yet been formalized.

It is hoped that domestic and foreign experts in psycho-psychology will give us better advice and suggestions.

03. How long does it usually take for our systematic in-depth psychological intervention? Many patients and their families ask our staff, "How long does your psychological intervention usually take? How many times do you have to do deep hypnosis? So far, the case reports we have shared do not reveal details of the duration of the intervention.

But inquiries are increasing, and recent case reports have disclosed details of how long patients receive psychological interventions and how many times deep hypnosis is used for pathological memory repair.

The few actual cases we've shared recently have had interventions lasting around 60 hours.

Is that the typical amount of time for patients who have received our psychological interventions? Of course not.

We see patients with as little as 30-50 hours of psychological intervention and as much as 100 hours or more.

The length of our psychological interventions with patients is related to five factors: the severity of the patient's condition; the trust and cooperation of the patient and family; the patient's hypnotic sensitivity; the patient's understanding and the family's ability to self-reflect; and the patient's and family's goals for treatment.

Looking at the case reports, many of the patients' symptoms are very complex and serious, and can even be described as difficult, but there may also be mental health practitioners in amazement as to why they recovered in such a short period of time. I suspect not excluding someone, and I don't think that's true.

We can fully understand their surprise and doubt.

I'm a working psychiatric psychologist of 17 years, and when I first went off the grid, I too thought medication worked best.

When I was later introduced to psychology, I also studied and used psychoanalytic therapy and cognitive behavioral therapy.

For me at the time, I was also incredulous and skeptical about the consolidation of pathological memories, memories, and even theories about the psychological intervention techniques that we have now created.

But now I understand that many things are not impossible, but that our own inherent knowledge, theories, and techniques limit the boundaries of our perceptions.

When we realize this and are open to understanding, learning, and improving, we independently think deeper, and many things we previously thought were impossible are actually things we want to understand and achieve.

Of course, I also know that in reality, not everyone is in a position to do the above.

So, we can understand that some people understand us; but we also insist on serving only the families who know, trust and recognize our patients.

The picture shows that over the past 17 years, we at Haruhi Psychology (Haruhi Mind-Body Medical Care) have continued to explore the no-man's land of integration of the three major disciplines of psychiatry, psychology, and education, and there have been many breakthroughs in multidisciplinary diagnostic and treatment (MDT ) practice.

Specifically, with the establishment of the core technology - Deep Hypnosis Trauma Repair Technology (TPTIH) and Deep Hypnosis Pathological Memory Repair Technology (TPMIH), we have already entered into the field of "Precision Psychiatry".

In the future, we will continue to work hard to realize the replication and promotion of clinical psychological intervention technology under efficient and precise deep hypnosis as soon as possible, so as to promote the development of scientific mental psychology in China, and to provide efficient diagnostic and treatment services for more patients and families, so that they can overcome the sufferings as soon as possible, and realize the return to the right track.

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