It is guarantying objective information in case of conflicts or complaints. It is necessary for your as well as for a specialist’s security. There is a video surveillance in some clinics, which is recording video, but isn’t recording sound (voice, speech). A qualified specialist will not rent office which is not adapted for psychotherapy. An office, where a specialist is directly working must be used only for consulting or treatment. As a rule a qualified specialist has a permanent work space – an office, a centre, or a clinic. Psychologists or psychotherapists are specialists that get secular education based on the system of rational and scientific knowledge.ģ) The third important moment is a place where a specialist is working.
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Often people having a “folk healer” license impersonate as a psychologist or psychotherapist. The next necessary moment you should pay attention to is the situation when a person has a license of a “folk healer”, it is not a guarantee of his/her education in psychology or psychotherapy.
#EXPERT CHOICE DECAL PROFESSIONAL#
At least you should collect information about the professional you want to visit from people used his/her service. So you should be careful in choosing a psychologist. The disadvantage is that a qualification and a maturity of a specialist are not controlled by anyone.
#EXPERT CHOICE DECAL REGISTRATION#
The advantage is that a specialist is free from the boring process of registration and formal procedures to get the license. There are advantages as well as disadvantages about it. And remember one more thing: it’s legal to ask for these documents and there is nothing wrong with that.Īnother necessary moment you should know is that nowadays in the Republic of Kazakhstan a psychologist’s activity is not licensed as a “Psychological help” or “Psychological counseling”. Remember that a true specialist will never hide these documents and will show you by the first request for sure. It is impossible to have a license without them. If these documents are available, all needed documents might be available too. It’s enough to make sure that this specialist or a medical centre where a specialist works has “State license for medical practice in accordance with the attached list” given by the Regional Health Administration and Application to the License where a type of medical activities is written (in our case it should be “Psychotherapy”). You don’t need to ask for all these documents. Also a specialist should have postgraduate diploma or qualification development certificates. In Kazakhstan it is the Regional Department of the medical and pharmaceutical activities monitoring Regional (Oblast) Committee of Control of medical and pharmaceutical activities of the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Kazakhstan. In addition to the diploma a psychotherapist must have a psychotherapist’s certificate given by the state agency rather than by the public organizations. It could be a doctor’ or a psychologist’ diploma. A qualified specialist will determine your health status, correlate it with his/her professional competence, with experience and professional specialization and then will work with you or redirect you to another specialist who will be more useful for you.Ģ) The second thing you should pay attention to is a document which confirms a specialist’s education and qualification. You confidently may go to either a psychotherapist or a psychologist. But a psychotherapist may additionally treat you with medicaments. This specialist accompanies you during your life’s crisis.Ī psychotherapist does all the same. A psychologist is a specialist in human’s psychology, so s\he helps people to realize what is happening with her/him and to understand the reasons of her/his mental disorders. S/he will never give you any kind of drugs. S/he doesn’t give you antidepressants in case of depression or tranquilizers in case of phobia. Psychologist doesn’t have a doctor’s diploma and s/he doesn’t treat clinical illnesses like asthma or hypertonic illness. There is a list of recommendations which will help you in choosing a specialist.ġ) First of all you should determine what kind of specialist you need. It is really important to find a qualified professional to solve your personal psychological issues. But these professions have one and the same aims, namely to help people in solving their personal issues, to overcome soul crisis and to return emotional comfort. Psychotherapist and psychologist are not the same specialties in the Republic of Kazakhstan. Psychotherapist and psychologist – specialist personality Helpful information in choosing a specialist.