Counselling Psychology: A Discipline

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This article is a beginning step in the process of defining counselling psychology as a discipline. The following areas are examined: (1) the history of the emergence of disciplines, (2) the process fields of study move through in becoming disciplines, (3) the status of counselling psychology in relationship to the criteria of a discipline, and (4) the domain of psychological knowledge included in the discipline of counselling psychology