'Counseling' definitions:
Definition of 'counseling'
From: WordNet
noun
Something that provides direction or advice as to a decision or course of action [syn: guidance, counsel, counseling, counselling, direction]
Definition of 'Counseling'
From: GCIDE
- Counsel \Coun"sel\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Counseled (-s[e^]ld) or Counselled; p. pr. & vb. n. Counseling or Counselling.] [OE. conseilen, counseilen, F. conseiller, fr. L. consiliari, fr. consilium counsel.]
- 1. To give advice to; to advice, admonish, or instruct, as a person. [1913 Webster]
- Good sir, I do in friendship counsel you To leave this place. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To advise or recommend, as an act or course. [1913 Webster]
- They who counsel war. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- Thus Belial, with words clothed in reason's garb, Counseled ignoble ease and peaceful sloth. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'counseling'
From: GCIDE
- counseling \counseling\ n. direction or advice as to a decision or course of action.
- Syn: guidance, counsel, direction. [WordNet 1.5]
Synonyms of 'counseling'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- Arica movement,
- assertiveness training,
- behavior modification,
- behavior therapy,
- bioenergetics,
- biofeedback,
- confrontation therapy,
- conjoint therapy,
- consciousness raising,
- directive therapy,
- encounter therapy,
- Erhard Seminars Training,
- est,
- family training,
- feminist therapy,
- gestalt therapy,
- group psychotherapy,
- group relations training,
- group sensitivity training,
- group therapy,
- humanistic therapy,
- hypnoanalysis,
- hypnosis,
- hypnotherapy,
- hypnotism,
- marathon,
- marriage encounter,
- mind cure,
- narcoanalysis,
- narcohypnosis,
- narcosynthesis,
- narcotherapy,
- New Consciousness,
- nondirective therapy,
- occupational therapy,
- pastoral counseling,
- Pentothal interview,
- play therapy,
- primal therapy,
- prolonged narcosis,
- psychodrama,
- psychological counseling,
- psychosurgery,
- psychosynthesis,
- psychotherapeutics,
- psychotherapy,
- radical therapy,
- rational-emotive therapy,
- reality therapy,
- recreational therapy,
- regression therapy,
- release therapy,
- SAT,
- scream therapy,
- sensitivity training,
- sensory awareness training,
- sleep treatment,
- supportive therapy,
- T-group,
- training group,
- transactional analysis,
- transcendental meditation,
- transpersonal therapy,
- vocational therapy