Family education consultant refers to professionals engaged in family education guidance, family education consultation, parenting education consultation and parent education (parent training). Generally speaking, family education counselors are "mentors" and "doctors" of families. Through the communication and evaluation between parents and children, he can find the problems in family education, follow up and help solve the puzzles in family education and realize family happiness.

Family education guidance refers to an educational process in which institutions and social organizations outside the family take children's parents as the main object, with the direct goal of improving parents' quality education and educational behavior and promoting children's physical and mental health.

The former refers to people, while the latter refers to an educational process.