Psychological counseling center, sometimes called psychological counseling room, is a place to carry out mental health education, generally including reception room, psychological reading room, psychological measurement room, individual psychological counseling room, group psychological counseling room, sandbox game room, vent room, relaxation room and other functional units. Generally speaking, a psychological counseling center does not belong to a medical institution if it only provides psychological counseling but not psychotherapy. Of course, psychological counseling centers and medical institutions also have certain differences:
1, prescription right
Psychological counseling institutions may not have the right to prescribe, but professional psychological medical institutions can better help us alleviate some psychological problems from the physiological level, such as hormone regulation.
2. Pay attention to the types of problems that need to be solved
The problems solved by psychological counseling centers are relatively limited, mainly some mental health counseling; For more serious psychological problems, you should go to a specialized medical institution for consultation. Of course, you can also go to the psychological counseling center for a psychological evaluation first. If necessary, the counselor will also advise you to do psychotherapy.
Second, what is the function of the psychological counseling room?
As a place to help visitors with psychological counseling, many schools, government units or communities have established psychological counseling rooms, whose main function is to help people with psychological counseling needs receive psychological counseling in time. The functions of the psychological counseling center are mainly:
1, emotional catharsis
People with great psychological pressure are faced with all kinds of psychological puzzles. If they don't vent their psychological pressure in time, it is easy to suppress people's mental state, and the psychological counseling room can provide a place for such people to vent. Psychological counseling rooms are usually equipped with emotional venting devices such as intelligent blow venting devices, intelligent shouting venting devices, graffiti walls, and somatosensory interactive decompression platforms to help visitors vent their emotions and release psychological pressure.
2, psychological relaxation
When psychological relaxation can reduce people's psychological pressure and adjust their mental health, the psychological consultation room will be equipped with some devices to relieve psychological pressure, such as music relaxation chairs, somatosensory hypnotic beds, and physical and mental feedback training systems. Help visitors to better decompress, reduce psychological tension and anxiety, and relax.
3. Psychological evaluation
Psychological evaluation is mainly to understand the mental health status of visitors and make appropriate mental health solutions for them in time, to help psychological counselors find out what psychological problems visitors have in time and give relevant psychological suggestions, which are generally operated by testing or psychological evaluation software.
4. Group counseling
Psychological counseling rooms in schools usually have such arrangements, mainly for teenagers, to solve the confusion of students with the same psychological problems through group psychological counseling. Common equipment includes group consultation package, psychological drama toolbox, etc. , mainly through some group games to solve psychological confusion and release psychological pressure.
Psychological counseling room can provide corresponding psychological counseling services for visitors with psychological counseling needs, thus reducing their psychological confusion and helping them solve various psychological problems; In today's environment, many students and office workers are more or less faced with all kinds of psychological confusion, so it is necessary to build a psychological counseling room.