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Presented by a '''Divine Counselor''', a member of a group of [[celestial]] personalities assigned by the [[Ancients of Days]] on [[Uversa]], the headquarters of the seventh [[superuniverse]], to supervise those portions of this forthcoming revelation which have to do with affairs beyond the borders of the local universe of [[Nebadon]]. I am commissioned to sponsor those papers portraying the nature and attributes of God because ''I represent the highest source of information available for such a purpose on any inhabited world.'' I have served as a Divine Counselor in all seven of the superuniverses and have long resided at the [[Paradise]] center of all things. Many times have I enjoyed the supreme pleasure of a sojourn in the immediate personal presence of the Universal Father. I portray the reality and truth of the Father's nature and attributes with unchallengeable [[authority]]; I know whereof I speak. [http://www.urantia.org/cgi-bin/webglimpse/mfs/usr/local/www/data/papers?link=http://mercy.urantia.org/papers/paper1.html&file=/usr/local/www/data/papers/paper1.html&line=185#mfs]
Presented by a '''Divine Counselor''', a member of a group of [[celestial]] personalities assigned by the [[Ancients of Days]] on [[Uversa]], the headquarters of the seventh [[superuniverse]], to supervise those portions of this forthcoming revelation which have to do with affairs beyond the borders of the local universe of [[Nebadon]]. I am commissioned to sponsor those papers portraying the nature and attributes of God because ''I represent the highest source of information available for such a purpose on any inhabited world.'' I have served as a Divine Counselor in all seven of the superuniverses and have long resided at the [[Paradise]] center of all things. Many times have I enjoyed the supreme pleasure of a sojourn in the immediate personal presence of the Universal Father. I portray the reality and truth of the Father's nature and attributes with unchallengeable [[authority]]; I know whereof I speak. [http://www.urantia.org/cgi-bin/webglimpse/mfs/usr/local/www/data/papers?link=http://mercy.urantia.org/papers/paper1.html&file=/usr/local/www/data/papers/paper1.html&line=185#mfs]
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In Law and Politics:
* Lawyer, a legal counselor
* Minister-counselor, in the field of diplomacy, a high-ranking diplomat, usually just below the status of an ambassador or of a diplomatic minister
Other uses:
* Consul (representative), an official representatives of a state, outside its (metropolitan) territory that takes care of its interests outside the official Embassy in a Consulate.
* Consultant, a professional who provides expert advice in a particular domain or area of expertise.
* Counselor, a children's supervisor, usually at camp
* Councillor, a member of a council
* Privy Counsellor, a member of a Privy Council
* Institution of the Counsellors, an appointed position in the Bahá'í Faith
* Counselor (Role Variant), is a name for the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator personality type INFJ (Introverted iNtuitive Feeling Judging)
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The word '''counseling''' or '''counselling''' comes from the ''Middle English counseil, from Old French conseil, from Latin cōnsilium; akin to cōnsulere, to take counsel, consult''.
There are probably as many definitions of counseling as there are practitioners to describe it. The term was originally used by [[Frank Parsons]] in 1908. It was adopted by [[Carl Rogers]] in response to widespread prejudice in the USA against lay therapists and also because he was not then permitted by the psychiatry profession to call himself a [[psychotherapy|psychotherapist]]. The difference between definitions of counseling and psychotherapy is less significant that the practitioners' perceptions of their [[Raison d'être]].
== Difference between coaching, counseling and psychotherapy ==
[[Coaching]] tends to be future orientated, goal focused and asks the client to be accountable to themselves. Counseling tends to be oriented in equal measure to the past, present and future as well as problem and solution focused but less on [[psychopathology]] than psychotherapy.{{Fact|date=June 2007}} [[Psychotherapy]] tends to deal more with seriously disturbed individuals such as those with [[depression]], [[anxiety]] or [[personality disorder]]. This distinction is not hard and fast however, as in both common and professional usage counseling and psychotherapy are interchangeable, whilst coaching is perceived as different and limited to sports coaching, yet includes therapeutic coaching in its realm. This leads to confusion for both customers and practitioners in a complex service industry that now includes marriage [[mentoring]], for example. The differences are usually to do with the type of training, accreditation and special interests of each type of coach, counselor or psychotherapist.
Coaching arose from management consultancy and leadership training, and has grown into traditional counseling and psychotherapy fields such as [[conflict coaching]] and [[systemic coaching]]. Coaching and counseling tend to arise from a [[humanistic]] and [[Client centered therapy|client-centered]] approach. Counselors attend to both normal social, cultural and developmental issues as well as the problems associated with physical, emotional, and mental disorders. These are nonpathologizing views of the person in context. A vital ingredient is their view that coaching and counseling are a meeting between practitioner and client, which invites the creative possibilities of [[dialogue]] in contrast to treatment of a disorder and in [[mentoring]], a partnership of colleagues of greater and lesser experience. Many personal coaches and counselors use movement, psychodynamic and cognitive-behavioral approaches in their work, usually integrating these aspects into the process when appropriate and beneficial to their client.
Coaching, psychotherapy and counseling all encourage [[self help]] as a resource for change, but to different degrees. For example, will a person believed to be suffering a mental disorder think about self-help in a disordered way - using aluminum foil wrapping of the skull to prevent their thoughts being broadcast to a television set, for example. This could be considered disordered self-help. By contrast, in an approach that does not pathologize the person, the practitioner is unlikely to pathologize the client's self help strategy and some may even research the science of experience to find information about the effectiveness of a skullcap.
Coaching, psychotherapy and counseling, taken together and used together represent an ecletic approach and serve as perhaps the best approach when taken together, since clients come from various backgrounds and circumstances and represent different needs and issues.
== History ==
For context to the history of counseling see [[Timeline of psychology]] and [[Timeline of psychotherapy]]. Each of the articles in See Also below contain histories which relate to that of counseling. For a brief history see the external sites below.
== What a counselor usually does ==
* Listen effectively to what you are saying
* Interrupt you when it is useful and appropriate
* Facilitate your untangling of thoughts, feelings and worries about a situation
* Offer you their insights into how you act, think and feel
* Teach, show and help you express your emotions in your own way
* Teach, show and help you work out your own solutions to problems
* Teach, show and help you accept what cannot be changed
* Teach, show, help and support you and your relationship while you do all this
* Use a variety of different techniques to help you explore what is important to you.
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