Difference between psychotherapy & Couselling

 Counselling: give advice to give professional help to someone with personal or psychological problems recommend a course of action.

Psychotherapy: the treatment of mental disorder by psychological and not medical means.

Counselling:

1: Helps people identify problems and crises and encourages them to take positive steps to resolve these issues.

2: It is the best course of therapeutic treatment for anyone who already has an understanding of wellbeing, and who is also able to resolve problems.

3: Counselling is a short-term process that encourages the change of behaviour.

Psychotherapy:

1: Helps people with psychological problems that have built up over the course of a long period of time.

2: It will help you understand your feelings, thoughts and actions more clearly.

3: Psychotherapy is a longer-term process of treatment that identifies emotional issues and the background to problems and difficulties.

PSYCHOTHERAPY

Psychotherapy, or talk therapy, is a way to help people with a broad variety of mental illnesses and emotional difficulties. Psychotherapy can help eliminate or control troubling symptoms so a person can function better and can increase well-being and healing.

Problems helped by psychotherapy include difficulties in coping with daily life; the impact of trauma, medical illness or loss, like the death of a loved one; and specific mental disorders, like depression or anxiety. There are several different types of psychotherapy and some types may work better with certain problems or issues. Psychotherapy may be used in combination with medication or other therapies.

Therapy Sessions

Therapy may be conducted in an individual, family, couple, or group setting, and can help both children and adults. Most sessions are 30 to 50 minutes long. Both patient and therapist need to be actively involved in psychotherapy. The trust and relationship between a person and his/her therapist is essential to working together effectively and benefiting from psychotherapy.

Psychotherapy can be short-term (a few sessions), dealing with immediate issues, or long-term (months or years), dealing with long standing and complex issues. The goals of treatment and arrangements for how often and how long to meet are planned jointly by the patient and therapist.

Confidentiality is a basic requirement of psychotherapy. Also, although patients share personal feelings and thoughts, intimate physical contact with a therapist is never appropriate, acceptable, or useful.

Sociological perpectives

Sociologists today employ three primary theoretical perspectives: the symbolic  interactionist perspective, the  functionalist perspective, and the  conflict perspective. These perspectives offer sociologists theoretical paradigms for explaining how society influences people, and vice versa.

1:-The  functionalist perspective is based largely on the works of Herbert Spencer, Emile Durkheim, Talcott Parsons, and Robert Merton. According to functionalism, society is a system of interconnected parts that work together in harmony to maintain a state of balance and social equilibrium for the whole.
For eg:
The functionalist perspective's idea is quite simple. It is that, as the human body system works, the institutions in the society works interdependently for the proper functioning of the whole; the whole being the entire society.

2:-Conflict Perspective,Unlike the structural functional theory, which views society as a peaceful unit, conflict theory interprets society as a struggle for power between groups engaging in  conflict for limited resources. Karl Marx is the founder of conflict  theory.
For eg:
If we take take the case of a factory worker and the relationship he shares with the factory owner. Over here, a consensus theorist would state that the basis of their relationship is mutual benefit. The factory worker receives wages for the work done by him while the owner makes profits from the work done. In contrast however, a conflict theorist would base this relationship of mutual coinflict between the two. In the above case, the factory worker is in conflict with the factor owner who owns the means of production and earns profits while oppressing the worker by giving him lower wages.

3:-
In sociology, interactionism is a theoretical  perspective that derives social processes (such as conflict, cooperation, identity formation) from human interaction. It is the study of how individuals shape society and  are  shaped by society through  meaning that arises in interactions.
For eg;
In education more than any other field is interactions so available to see. Take for instance many many gifted kids, who, seem unable to preform on grade average. Interactionists blame the teachers more partially than the student, since the teacher is more cognizant of their meaning behind interactions. However the emphasis is placed on a childs ability to quickly learn any information if only presented through a proficient interactionists.
I.e. the student fails because the teacher fails to provide a solid interaction for the student.