Background information on counselling available here includes glossaries and summaries of both ‘traditional’ and ‘alternative’ approaches to mental health treatment. For a more detailed look at specific individual types of counselling and psychotherapy, check the main section on types of therapy at Counselling Resource.
Are you interested in alternative approaches to mental health care? This guide from the US National Mental Health Information Center may help to answer some of your questions and provides pointers to some additional resources.
This glossary provides definitions of many commonly used mental health terms and is based on a mental health dictionary supplied by the US Government’s Department of Health and Human Services, with updates added by editor Dr Greg Mulhauser.
This glossary covers terms commonly used in mental health in the context of children and adolescents; it draws primarily on US usage of these terms. Also see the broader general Mental Health Glossary.
For an independent view on ‘traditional therapies’, please see this guide from the National Mental Health Information Center.
