<p>In general <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positive_psychology" rel="nofollow">positive psychology</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coaching" rel="nofollow">coaching</a>, and counselling are all fields that endeavour to help people achieve their potential. All these areas have scientific literature built around them. That said, there is a degree to which coaching and counselling are practical skills. Most psychologists aspire to follow the scientist-practitioner model. That said, specific practitioners may vary in the degree to which they follow this model versus using more intuitive approaches.</p>

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<p>According to these answers <a href="https://cogsci.stackexchange.com/questions/6062/is-neuro-linguistic-programming-nlp-a-science-or-pseudoscience/6069#6069">1</a>, <a href="https://cogsci.stackexchange.com/questions/3788/is-neurolinguistic-programming-effective-in-influenceing-sales-processes">2</a> and to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuro-linguistic_programming#Scientific_evaluation" rel="nofollow noreferrer">wikipedia</a>, NLP seems to be a pseudoscience, which has shown no real effectiveness, and so on.</p>

<p>Are there scientific proved alternatives to NLP?</p>

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What do you mean by "alternatives to NLP"? NLP claims to do several things; which of them are you looking to do scientifically?
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Are there scientific alternatives to Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP)?
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# Are there scientific alternatives to Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP)?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2014-03-24)

According to these answers [1](https://cogsci.stackexchange.com/questions/6062/is-neuro-linguistic-programming-nlp-a-science-or-pseudoscience/6069#6069), [2](https://cogsci.stackexchange.com/questions/3788/is-neurolinguistic-programming-effective-in-influenceing-sales-processes) and to [wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuro-linguistic_programming#Scientific_evaluation), NLP seems to be a pseudoscience, which has shown no real effectiveness, and so on.

Are there scientific proved alternatives to NLP?

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> **Comments:**
> **username_1**: What do you mean by "alternatives to NLP"? NLP claims to do several things; which of them are you looking to do scientifically?  

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### Answer by username_2 on 2014-03-27. Score: 6 | Accepted answer

In general [positive psychology](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positive_psychology), [coaching](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coaching), and counselling are all fields that endeavour to help people achieve their potential. All these areas have scientific literature built around them. That said, there is a degree to which coaching and counselling are practical skills. Most psychologists aspire to follow the scientist-practitioner model. That said, specific practitioners may vary in the degree to which they follow this model versus using more intuitive approaches.


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