LPC/LMHC treatment methods

[pacman8794]

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Hey everyone, i was just wondering what kinds of treatment methods LPC's/LMHC's use in oder to help patients. I'm just a bit confused b/c i know they can't do projective tests or assessments so I'm just wondering how they help others compared to the counseling psychologists.

 

[michalita]

Hey everyone, I was just wondering what kinds of treatment methods LPC's/LMHC's use in order to help patients. I'm just a bit confused b/c I know they can't do projective tests or assessments so I'm just wondering how they help others compared to the counseling psychologists.

Exactly what do you mean by "assessments?" I know LMHCs who do psychosocial assessments or assessments to determine whether or not someone needs to be hospitalized (emergency services). They do not do psychological testing, which is a bit different.

LMHCs provide counseling/therapy, including psychodynamic and cognitive-behavioral therapy. Counseling psychologists have doctoral degrees and can do clinical work but also can conduct research and teach at the college level, whereas LMHCs are master's level clinicians who can practice therapy independently but don't run their own research lab or teach at the college level (except for some adjunct/clinical professors -- not tenure-tracked).

Other posters: Please correct me if I'm wrong in anything I've written. I work with LMHCs now and I'm posting based on what I know about their work.

OP: I hope I've answered your question.

 

[pingouin]

Exactly what do you mean by "assessments?" I know LMHCs who do psychosocial assessments or assessments to determine whether or not someone needs to be hospitalized (emergency services). They do not do psychological testing, which is a bit different.

I think he's referring to assessment by testing rather than a psychosocial assessment (which is generally what I refer to when using that term).

Otherwise, I think you're pretty spot-on.

Also, OP, you may want to do a search and review some of the many threads about LMHCs and LCSWs- several of which you started a few months ago- which have lots of information from myself, PsyKardinal, and a few others who are practicing at the masters level.

 

[pacman8794]

Exactly what do you mean by "assessments?" I know LMHCs who do psychosocial assessments or assessments to determine whether or not someone needs to be hospitalized (emergency services). They do not do psychological testing, which is a bit different.

LMHCs provide counseling/therapy, including psychodynamic and cognitive-behavioral therapy. Counseling psychologists have doctoral degrees and can do clinical work but also can conduct research and teach at the college level, whereas LMHCs are master's level clinicians who can practice therapy independently but don't run their own research lab or teach at the college level (except for some adjunct/clinical professors -- not tenure-tracked).

Other posters: Please correct me if I'm wrong in anything I've written. I work with LMHCs now and I'm posting based on what I know about their work.

OP: I hope I've answered your question.

thanks, you pretty much answered my question. thanks to pingouin as well.

 

[PsyKardinal]

Pingouin and Michalita both provided great answers. 😀

Jeff