TY - JOUR
T1 - Counseling Psychology in Israel
T2 - Successful Accomplishments of a Nonexistent Specialty
AU - Barak, Azy
AU - Golan, Galia
PY - 2000/1
Y1 - 2000/1
N2 - This article discusses the status of counseling psychology in Israel in the context of its unique characteristics. Despite the respected status of psychology as a profession in Israel and its overall acceptance and involvement in numerous social issues, counseling psychology as a separate specialty is nonexistent, especially because of resistance to the clinical psychology specialty. In addition to general subjects where counseling may be applied, special problem areas'including continuous security threats, massive immigration, non-Jewish minorities, issues concerning religiosity, and effects of the Holocaust'create the necessity for counseling psychology interventions. Nevertheless, actual, successful, professional accomplishments make this either unnecessary or call for a change in the counseling-related training of clinical psychologists.
AB - This article discusses the status of counseling psychology in Israel in the context of its unique characteristics. Despite the respected status of psychology as a profession in Israel and its overall acceptance and involvement in numerous social issues, counseling psychology as a separate specialty is nonexistent, especially because of resistance to the clinical psychology specialty. In addition to general subjects where counseling may be applied, special problem areas'including continuous security threats, massive immigration, non-Jewish minorities, issues concerning religiosity, and effects of the Holocaust'create the necessity for counseling psychology interventions. Nevertheless, actual, successful, professional accomplishments make this either unnecessary or call for a change in the counseling-related training of clinical psychologists.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=0034416854&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1177/0011000000281006
DO - 10.1177/0011000000281006
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0034416854
SN - 0011-0000
VL - 28
SP - 100
EP - 116
JO - Counseling Psychologist
JF - Counseling Psychologist
IS - 1
ER -