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[koun-suh-ling]

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noun Psychology.

professional guidance in resolving personal conflicts and emotional problems.

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Also, coun·sel·ling.

Origin:
counsel + -ing¹

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a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.

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The care in question is counseling from doctors about alcohol abuse.

More students seek counseling and take psychiatric medication.

It would seem to me the sensible thing would have been to send him to counseling for alcohol abuse.

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The care in question is counseling from doctors about alcohol abuse.

More students seek counseling and take psychiatric medication.

It would seem to me the sensible thing would have been to send him to counseling for alcohol abuse.

We also do a lot of mentoring and career counseling.

Innovative counseling programs in developing countries are repairing the psyches of civil war survivors and depressed.

All participants received drug counseling during the trial and submitted regular urine samples.

Counseling centers are seeing higher rates of students suffering from serious mental illness.

Many would attend a few sessions and leave counseling without informing me of their intent.

These centers offer training and counseling but could enhance facilitation of private sector partnerships.

The aim of perfectionism counseling is not simply to tame the trait s destructive side.

Send him to counseling and require that he compensate his victim.

Pugach was sentenced yesterday to a year of counseling and ordered to stay away from the ex.

Additional duties include cadet counseling and support of cadet extracurricular activities.

Genetic counseling doesn't have anything to do with improving the population.

They also make pit stops at the booth for free dental checkups and the booth for psychological counseling.

The government plans to open rehabilitation centers for adult addicts and expand counseling for students and the unemployed.

The researchers hope their work will help faculty members and counseling centers effectively respond to students' self-defeating.

Suggestions for the profession of mental health counseling and those working with these consumers conclude the article.

Aftab says the solution is counseling and education.

The counseling service insists that placement outside the community does not meet the needs of these youths.

He added that the university would offer counseling services to students.

Get to the root of the cause: get some counseling for your emotional trauma, or remove the cause of neurological dysfunction.

Whistle-blowers, victims of abuse, and troubled people seeking counseling.

First and foremost, colleges should promote the use of campus counseling services.

Charla's injuries were so horrific that hospital workers who treated her had to receive counseling.

There's no lack of caveats and in-context explanations on the site counseling customers to be cautious.

They do short-term counseling and make referrals to civilian psychiatrists or psychologists for long-term therapy.

Why regulating fertility treatment is bad but mandating psychological counseling is good.

Twice when she was a sophomore, anxiety attacks sent her to the campus counseling center.

The state has failed to provide adequate counseling and mental health services for children and their families.

Those not selling books, workshops or counseling admit to knowing surprisingly little.

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Dictionary.com Unabridged

noun

advice; opinion or instruction given in directing the judgment or conduct of another.

interchange of opinions as to future procedure; consultation; deliberation.

Law. (used with a singular or plural verb) the advocate or advocates engaged in the direction of a cause in court; a legal adviser or counselor: Is counsel for the defense present?

deliberate purpose; plan; design.

Theology. one of the advisory declarations of Christ, considered by some Christians as not universally binding but as given for aid in attaining moral perfection.

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Archaic. a private or secret opinion or purpose.

Obsolete. wisdom; prudence.

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verb (used with object)

to give advice to; advise.

to urge the adoption of, as a course of action; recommend (a plan, policy, etc.): He counseled patience during the crisis.

verb (used without object)

10.

to give counsel or advice.

11.

to get or take counsel or advice.

Idioms

12.

keep one's own counsel, to conceal one's ideas or opinions; keep silent.

13.

take counsel, to ask for or exchange advice, ideas, or opinions; deliberate; consult.

Origin:
1175–1225; (noun) Middle English counseil < Anglo-French cunseil, Old French conseil < Latin consilium debate, advice, advisory body, plan, equivalent to consil-, variant stem of consulere to apply for advice (see consult) + -ium -ium; (v.) < Anglo-French cunseiler (Old French conseillier) < Late Latin consiliāre, derivative of consilium

Related forms

coun·sel·a·ble; especially British, coun·sel·la·ble, adjective

pre·coun·sel, noun, verb, -seled, -sel·ing or (especially British) -selled, -sel·ling.

re·coun·sel, verb (used with object), -seled, -sel·ing or (especially British) -selled, -sel·ling.

un·coun·seled, adjective

un·coun·selled, adjective

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well-coun·seled, adjective

well-coun·selled, adjective

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Can be confused: 1. attorney, counsel, counselor, lawyer, litigator; 2. consul, council, counsel (see usage note at council).

Synonyms
1. recommendation, suggestion. See advice. 3. lawyer, attorney; solicitor, barrister.

Usage note
See council.

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World English Dictionary

counselling or (US) counseling (ˈkaʊnsəlɪŋ)

—n
	guidance offered by social workers, doctors, etc, to help a person resolve social or personal problems

counseling or (US) counseling

—n

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Word Origin & History

counsel

early 13c., from O.Fr. counseil, from L. consilium "plan, opinion" (see consultation). As a synonym for "lawyer," first attested late 14c. Counseling "giving professional advice on social or psychological problems" dates from 1940.

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