Counseling or Psychotherapy

Counseling adresses to healthy people that find themselves in a dificult situation suc as goin through family or socialy stressful situations, through a divorce, a disease, an accident, a depression or that just want to improve their relationships with those around them or to deal with an unfortunate incident. The Counselor assists the client in order to control a crisis situation, he sustains him and helps him find a coresponding solution to the problem at hand. Normaly the number of meetings is more reduced than in the case of Psychotherapy

Psychotherapy is a form of condensed and intensive intervention that seeks to improve affirmation abilities, work and teaching of a person with disabilities within the limits of his mental and physical capacity through complexe and complementary measures of medical, psychological, pedagogical and social nature in order to satisfy the requirements of a normal life envirnoment.

There are many types of therapy such as:

• Occupational therapy
• Client centered therapy
• ABA therapy
• Expression therapy
• Therapy through games (Ludotherapy)
• Free Time therapy
• Music therapy
• Envirnoment therapy, etc

Psychotherapy approaches more serious problems and for this reason it adresses to people that have great psyhical disorders and the therapist - client relationship is used systematicaly in order to gain positive modifications in the client's way of thinking, feeling and acting.

Succes in psychotheraphy depend on these factors:

• the age of the child when entering the program
• the family's level of involvement
• the child' potential ( cognitive level, abilities, attention span, the ability to understand abstract things, the ability to differ fine from rough motility)
• the professionalism of the team leader (when needed)
• setting the therapeutical plan exactly on the needs of the client

Also there is a given fact that medicine does not treat the disorder, instead it can treat associated problems such as depression, anxiety, impulsivity, etc.