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Psychotherapy is a set of techniques intended to improve mental health, emotional or behavioral issues of individuals, group, or family interactional climates. Mental health problems can include psychological, social and somatic dimensions, which often make it hard for people to manage their lives and achieve their goals. Psychotherapy is aimed at these problems, and attempts to help people to solve them via a number of different approaches and techniques.
The term counseling is often used interchangeably with psychotherapy. It was originally adopted by Carl Rogers to distinguish his work from the more medically oriented psychotherapy but the difference has become blurred among lay people. Generally, counseling deals with ordinary every day problems and issues, while psychotherapy generally deals with deeper mental and emotional problems. Psychotherapy requires more intense training than counseling, and often tends to involve a longer time. (But see: brief, or strategic, therapy). Psychotherapeutic interventions are often designed to treat the client in the medical model, although not all psychotherapeutic approaches follow the model of "illness/cure", but are also short term. In this article the term can be taken to be the same as psychotherapy.
To emphasize the voluntary, free agency, consumer orientation of people seeking psychotherapy, they are often called clients, but psychotherapy as a method of treatment is regulated, at least in most Western countries, by the laws concerning patients and their rights. Commonly psychotherapy involves a therapist and client(s) — and in family therapy several family members or even other members from their social network — who discuss their issues in an effort to discover the underlying problems and to find constructive solutions. Because sensitive topics are often discussed during psychotherapy, therapists are expected, and usually legally bound, to respect client confidentiality.
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back from men's discipleship. we discussed the difference between clinical psychology and biblical counseling. they totally contradict!
pastorstephen (pastorstephen) Sat, 24 Oct 2009 16:11:48 -0000
back from men's discipleship. we discussed the difference between clinical psychology and biblical counseling. they totally contradict!
Aaron T. Beck - Homepage of the father of cognitive therapy. Biography, bibliography, and details of Beck Scales.
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Behavior Therapy - Introductory course in behavior therapy in both English and Japanese, intended for undergraduate students.
Jay Haley on Therapy - Details of Haley's approach and development of family therapy, strategic therapy, and problem-solving therapy.
Meta Description: [ This is the home page of pioneer therapist Jay Haley. Here you will find books and videotapes detailing and recreating his interviews with patients and a documentary of his work with Milton H. Erickson. ]
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Lab on Emotion and Aging - Vitas of research group at Case Western Reserve University exploring emotional changes in aging and emotional expression and experience in individuals with depression.
Nature of the mind - Ancient techniques for overcoming negative thinking which can be applied in todays contemporary society.
psyclick.org.uk -- A Resource for Prospective Clinical Psychologists - Information for people interested in obtaining a place on a Clinical Psychology Doctorate (DClinPsy) course in the UK. Includes articles, advice, details of regional assistant psychology groups, and discussion forum.
Meta Description: [ Resources for prospective clinical psychologists, including assistant psychologists, psychology graduates and undergraduates. Has a UK focus for those training in or working for the NHS. ]
Sociodynamic Constructivist Counselling - SocioDynamic Counselling is a method of life planning - helping individuals to clarify and articulate their reasons for acting and then reorganize their life activities to better achieve goals that they decide upon.
Meta Description: [ SocioDynamic Counselling is a method of life planning - helping individuals to clarify and articulate their reasons for acting and then reorganize their life activities to better achieve goals that they decide upon. ]
Trauma Relief Unlimited - Research study into Robert Cicione's brief treatment model of trauma.
Meta Description: [ T.R.U. or Trauma Relief Unlimited is a brief treatment model provided by licenced psychotherapist Robert Cicione, designed to give rapid relief to those affected by historical or recent, acute trauma. Thses services are insurance reimbursable. ]
Trauma Research - Research into child and adolescent trauma and treatment. Development of a module based group treatment process using a psycho-educational cognitive-behavioural approach.
Meta Description: [ trauma research. research into child and adolescent trauma and treatment. development of a group based treatment process. child & adolescent trauma information & resources. for the general public, parents, clinicians, researchers and students. ]
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