Counseling psychology in Israel: Successful accomplishments of a nonexistent specialty

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 specially is nonexistent, especially because of resistance to the clinical psychology specially. In addition to general subjects where counseling,nay be applied, special problem areas-including continuous security threats, massive immigration,, non-Jewish minorities, issues concerning religiosity, cl,ld 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.