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counseling

counseling \counseling\ n. direction or advice as to a decision or course of action.

Syn: guidance, counsel, direction.

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counseling

alt. assistance (especially from a professional) in the resolution of personal difficulty. n. assistance (especially from a professional) in the resolution of personal difficulty. vb. (present participle of counsel English)

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counseling

n. something that provides direction or advice as to a decision or course of action [syn: guidance, counsel, counselling, direction]

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Counseling (The Office)

"Counseling" is the second episode of the seventh season of the American comedy television series The Office and the shows 128th episode overall. It originally aired on NBC on September 30, 2010. The episode was written by B. J. Novak and directed by Jeffrey Blitz. "Counseling" guest stars Eric Zuckerman as a store clerk, Vincent Angelo as a vendor, and Michael Schur as Mose Schrute. Evan Peters also appears as Luke Cooper in archival footage from the previous episode.

The series depicts the everyday lives of office employees in the Scranton, Pennsylvania branch of the fictional Dunder Mifflin Paper Company. In the episode, Michael Scott ( Steve Carell) is forced to have six hours of counseling with Toby Flenderson ( Paul Lieberstein) after he physically reprimanded his nephew Luke (Peters), but Michael refuses to make Toby's job easy. Meanwhile, Pam Halpert ( Jenna Fischer) attempts to finagle a promotion to office administrator and Dwight Schrute ( Rainn Wilson) boycotts the Steamtown Mall after a shop owner refuses to serve him.

"Counseling" received mostly positive reviews from television critics. The episode was viewed by 7.36 million viewers and received a 3.7 rating among adults between the age of 18 and 49, marking a significant drop in the ratings when compared to the previous week. Despite this, the episode was the highest-rated NBC series of the night that it aired, as well as the highest-rated non-sports NBC broadcast for the week it aired.

Usage examples of "counseling".

We would save ourselves much trouble if we could agree that the proper place for most bioethical thought lies in counseling those affected, not in dictating the spectrum of possibilities.

In a time when more and more people in our society seem to be in need of psychiatric counseling, and when time-sharing of computers is widespread, I can even imagine the development of a network of computer psychotherapeutic terminals, something like arrays of large telephone booths, in which, for a few dollars a session, we are able to talk to an attentive, tested and largely nondirective psychotherapist.

Vivian Tamburello at the John Hopkins Counseling Center in Baltimore have a self-control program for adults and children.

It is used by increasing numbers of therapists in marital counseling, treatment of adolescents and pre-adolescents, pastoral counseling and family-centred obstetrical care, and in at least one institution for the mentally retarded, Laurel Hills of Sacramento.

If his family or caregivers knew and were concerned, there may have been some therapy or counseling.

However, in spite of frequent counseling with explanation of the reasons for the conservative policy on an AF base newspaper, Airman Thompson has consistently written controversial material and leans so strongly to critical editorializing that it was necessary to require that all his writing be thoroughly edited before release.

Tennant had an arrest history of fire starting and explosives that went back to the age of eighteen and had twice received court-mandated psychiatric counseling.

If a person overeats as a way of reducing anxiety about a love relationship, the relationship can be worked on, perhaps by talking, getting counseling, or joining a marriage enrichment group.

Roxcy Bolton, an activist who has been counseling abused women for years, says a halfway house is needed, a facility where AIDS-stricken prostitutes can go.

He snapped, "Were it Khoumnos or Bagratouni out there, Thorisin, instead of Baanes, would you be counseling prudence?

You actually should not be a practicing cyberdetective until you have had thorough psychological counseling.

He also had urged the man to seek counseling for alcohol abuse if he had not already done so.

A study of the relationship between taking applied psychology courses and seeking counseling.

I'm actually bucking for a junior counseling spot and Mistress Daneh thinks I can make it.

During the interminable evaluations and counseling sessions in Durham and training school at Butner, he had not complained about his family or a single event that had or hadn't happened to him.