Variant of CIP 2000 - NGS University-level Historical Groupings

• 2 - Social Sciences, Psychology and Law
• 26 - Psychology and Cognitive and Behavioural Sciences
• 42. - Psychology
• 42.06 - Counselling Psychology

42.0601 - Counselling Psychology

This instructional program class comprises any program that prepares individuals for the independent professional practice of psychological counselling, involving the provision of therapeutic services to individuals and groups experiencing psychological problems and exhibiting distress symptoms. These programs include courses in counselling theory, therapeutic intervention strategies, patient/counsellor relationships, testing and assessment methods and procedures, group therapy, marital and family therapy, child and adolescent therapy, supervised counselling practice, ethical standards, and applicable regulations.

• Example Program Names:

  • Counselling psychology
  • Psychological counselling

• Exclusion

  • Guidance counselling(13.1101)
  • Pastoral counselling(39.0701)
  • Developmental psychology(42.0701)
  • Family counselling(51.1505)
  • Clinical pastoral counselling(51.1506)
  • Psychoanalysis(51.1507)
  • Psychiatry-residency(60.0255)