Professional Counseling Focuses on Development

Professional counseling is different from other counseling and psychology related fields.  The desire of social work is to help the destitute.  Psychology wants to understand the nature of a person.  Psychiatry deals with medical interventions.  Professional counseling which officially grew out of the vocational counseling movement of the twentieth century (Neukrug, 2014) tends to focus on development, prevention and wellness (Mellin, Hunt,