Psychotherapy and Counseling Defined Psychotherapy and counseling are synonymous terms to describe a professional relationship
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Over 400 types of therapies have been identified (Karasu, 1992; Bangar and Beutler, 1994), ranging
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The question is not “Does Therapy Work?”, but for whom, when, why and how does
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This is the time to de-mystify the mysterious: the mechanics of therapy. It’s impossible to
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A landmark meta-analysis of more that 450 studies of psychotherapy showed that the therapist’s orientation
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In a formal and/or informal way therapist and client begin therapy by setting goals for
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Clients change during psychotherapy for many reasons, where many therapeutic and pharmacologic studies demonstrate a
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Stages and Sub-Stages of Therapy Regardless of type, all effective therapy moves through the same
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Therapy has long been described as the “talking cure.” In the first layer, therapy involves
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Sampling/Summary The American Psychologist Journal (vol. 50: No. 12, 1995) published the results of a
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The medium in traditional psychotherapy is conversation. It has long been touted as the “talking
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Ethics / Moral Principles in Psychotherapy The underlying principles therapists adhere to in doing psychotherapy
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Effective therapists have a solid grounding in the basics of psychotherapy, a stylistic “disciplined flexibility”.
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The tenet of mindfulness is: heightened awareness/attunement to presence. This includes being present for activities,
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For people to whom meditation seems too “airy-fairy,” hippie-like, ephemeral, not tangible. Being mindful is
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