anticounseling

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adjective

Opposing counseling.

Scrabble 17

Meanings

adjectiveanticounseling (comparative more anticounseling, superlative most anticounseling)

comparative more anticounseling · superlative most anticounseling

  1. Opposing counseling.

    You have realized for some time that Charles Underwood, a general science teacher at your school, is anticounseling. He has never referred a student to you and you've heard that he's been discouraging other teachers […]

    1972, Robert D. Myrick, Joe Wittmer, School Counseling: Problems and Methods
    2 more examples

    Though one might find some exceptions, so-called psychology bashers are not anticounseling. Most of them work to develop and practice loving and effective care for souls as the alternative to secular or quasi-secular psychotherapy.

    2001, Mark R. McMinn, Timothy R. Phillips, Care for the Soul

    Aside from the anticounseling bias present in traditional Kuwaiti culture, have you encountered any other cultural conflict while using Western counseling methods, such as cognitive-behavioral therapy, with your clients […]

    2008, Uwe P. Gielen, Juris G. Draguns, Jefferson M. Fish, Principles of Multicultural Counseling and Therapy

Origin

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APA

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MLA

“anticounseling.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/anticounseling. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

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