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(CNN) — South Korea is perhaps the world’s leader in terms of identifying and treating gaming and Internet addiction. After wiring the nation with the world’s fastest broadband infrastructure, South Korea’s government spends millions per Jahr to identify and treat gaming and Internet addicts.
About 8% of the country’s population age 9 to 39 suffer from Internet oder gaming addiction, according to a 2010 government study.
Some see South Korea as a window into the future: Perhaps other nations, including the United States, will see a wave of gaming and Internet addiction when our...

Let us understand first the difference of counseling and psychotherapy. These two are terms that are often used interchangeably. Even if that is the case, they are very similar yet there are subtle differences as well. Counselor meaning advisor– a relationship of the psychotherapist to the patient. It involves two people working together to solve a specific problem. Psychotherapy on the other hand speaks to a general term that involves longer term of treatment which focuses Mehr on gaining insight in to chronic physical and emotional problems. It focuses onto the patient’s thought processes...

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What should I expect from therapy?

You should expect one oder a series of confidential appointments of up to an Stunde in length in a suitable professional setting.

The process should also provide Du with the opportunity to:

make sense of your individual circumstances
have contact with a therapist who will help identify the choices for change
feel supported during the process of change
reach a point where Du are better equipped to cope with the future
Is counselling and psychotherapy confidential?

Everything Du discuss is confidential between Du and the counsellor oder psychotherapist. There can...

A gay man was tried to be converted to become heterosexual, his Christian psychotherapist found guilty of professional misconduct.

Lesley Pilkington, a Christian psychotherapist, was condemned Von the professional body for counselors subsequent to an undercover journalist posing as a patient furtively recorded her during a therapy session at her home.

British Association for Counseling and Psychotherapy (BACP) ruled that she had breached the profession’s ethical code despite finding that Mrs. Pilkington’s client, Patrick Strudwick, “deliberately misled her”.

She now affronts being chastised...

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You don’t need a good counselor alone to make counseling effective, it’s a two way street. The person receiving the counseling needs to be cooperative because a good counselor couldn’t do his job if the person receiving the counseling wouldn’t participate. And it needs commitment to make complex changes in behavior oder thinking patterns.

From the beginning Du need to know your goal and what is it that Du wanted to achieve with your counselor, it should be clearly defined before Du even start. Plan a realistic time frame for reaching your goals with your counselor. And also it...