Assistance (especially from a professional) in the resolution of personal difficulties.
The word "counseling" is correct and usable in written English. It can be used when referring to the process of giving advice and guidance to someone. For example, "My therapist is helping me work through my issues in counseling sessions.".
Counseling those like the Stanleys and Neumanns to "try harder", "think bigger" or to "follow their dreams" is, in the context of the options available to them, absurd to the point of obscenity.
The therapy might be working 9 19: Jim Lehrer seems to be offering the Senators marriage counseling.
Spock's bitter opposition to U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War during the 1960s led to his trial and conviction (1968) for counseling draft evasion a conviction overturned on appeal.
While never counseling secession, James Madison and Thomas Jefferson had clearly enunciated the states' rights-compact doctrine in the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions of 1798.
She earned an M.S. in counseling and psychology from California State University, Fullerton, in 1979.
In it he surprised many people by counseling a 10-year delay in granting the newly emancipated slaves the right to vote.
If this were the sort of respect Kant is counseling, then clearly it may vary from person to person and is surely not what treating something as an end-in-itself requires.
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