ABSTRACT
Objective:To draw a mapping knowledge domains of research status and trend in counseling and psychotherapy field from 2001 to 2014 by Bicomb software.Methods:CNKI,Wan Fang,VIP were searched and re-trieval time ranged from January 1,2001 to December 31,2014.Bicomb and SPSS20.0 software were applied to conduct co-word matrix,similarity matrix and multidimensional scaling.Results:Setting 30 and more as the fre-quency standard,60 high frequency keywords were abstracted after analyzing 6546 articles.Cluster analysis showed that studies about counseling and psychotherapy mainly focus on seven categories including the effectiveness of counseling and psychotherapy,children and adolescents'mental health and counseling,the localization of counseling and psychotherapy,the process of counseling and psychotherapy,counseling and treatment principles,relationships of psychotherapy and ideological work in colleges as well as theories and practices in counseling and psychotherapy field.The mapping knowledge domain showed that four aspects of high frequency keywords in counseling and psy-chotherapy field basically correspond to the 7 categories made by cluster analysis.Conclusions:The present study demonstrates that psychological counseling and treatment development of our country is still in the stage of investi-gating effect.Future researches should attach importance to the integration research of psychological counseling and ideological and political education in colleges,the rise and development of internet psychological counseling and the development of children and adolescent mental health.