January 19, 2012
A researcher has designed a study to test the effects of different types of individual psychotherapy on people’s levels of depression. She has randomly assigned people to one of three groups: a cognitive-behavioral treatment group, a psychodynamic treatment group, or a no-treatment control group. She then measures people’s level of depression after the treatment. Which of the following statements is true
a.The treatment group is the dependent variable; depression is the independent variable.
b.Depression is the dependent variable; the treatment group is the independent variable.
c.Depression is the dependent variable; cognitive-behavioral treatment is the independent variable.
d.Cognitive-behavioral treatment is the dependent variable; depression is the independent variable.
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January 1, 2012
Such as Arts and Sciences, Business, Criminal Justice, Education, Human Services, Nursing/Health Care, Psychology, Technology, etc..
Yes both at the same time. It is possible that being a psychiatrist and working for the CIA gets you the job of being able to predict a criminals mind or mind manipulation. It’s also possible searching it up. Something like that. Such as law and order. I am just very interested in it.
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January 1, 2012
I am 30 and have a choice at the moment on what direction to take my career. I already have a degree in Art & Humanities.
Do you think I should:
A: Go back to study for a Post Grad in Fine Art in London.
or
B: Study to become a psychotherapist specialising in Jungian Analysis
Thanks for your time!
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December 25, 2011
I’m in grade 10 and want to become either a clinical psychologist or psychotherapist.
I wish to live and study in England, but am debating if its worth it and if i should just stay inthe Toronto region.
If you have any information on relevant current career trends , or websites linking me to a government site, that would be greatly appreciated. Any feedback is welcomed.
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December 24, 2011
In what brand of psychotherapy would a clinical psychologist attempt to uncover the underlying unconscious conflicts and impulses that are the cause of one’s psychological difficulties?
A) Behavioral B) Cognitive-behavioral
C) Humanistic D) Psychoanalytic/psychodynamic
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December 18, 2011
CAN SOMEONE PLEASE PLEASE HELP ME WITH THESE QUESTIONS: PLEASE
1. What type of therapy are you practicing if you ask me to self-monitor my antecedents, behaviors, and consequences?
a. psychodynamic
b. individual psychology
c. analytical psychotherapy
d. existential/Gestalt
e. person-centered
f. behavioral
g. cognitive
2. What type of therapy are you practicing if you tell me my depression is caused by automatic, irrational beliefs?
a. psychodynamic
b. individual psychology
c. analytical psychotherapy
d. existential/Gestalt
e. person-centered
f. behavioral
g. cognitive
3. What type of therapy are you practicing if you believe that what drives me is an inborn push to grow toward greater complexity and interrelatedness?
a. psychodynamic
b. individual psychology
c. analytical psychotherapy
d. existential/Gestalt
e. person-centered
f. behavioral
g. cognitive
4. What type of therapy are you practicing if you ask me to take the MBTI?
a. psychodynamic
b. individual psychology
c. analytical psychotherapy
d. existential/Gestalt
e. person-centered
f. behavioral
g. cognitive
5. What type of therapy are you practicing if one of our goals of treatment is increasing my interest in the benefit of my fellow person?
a. psychodynamic
b. individual psychology
c. analytical psychotherapy
d. existential/Gestalt
e. person-centered
f. behavioral
g. cognitive
6. What type of therapy are you practicing if you have me face an empty chair and tell my mother how much I miss her?
a. psychodynamic
b. individual psychology
c. analytical psychotherapy
d. existential/Gestalt
e. person-centered
f. behavioral
g. cognitive
7.
What type of therapy are you practicing if you believe that the normal path in life is the journey toward individuation?
a. psychodynamic
b. individual psychology
c. analytical psychotherapy
d. existential/Gestalt
e. person-centered
f. behavioral
g. cognitive
8. What type of therapy are you practicing if you interpret my unhappy marriage as trying to resolve issues with my mother by marrying someone a lot like her?
a. psychodynamic
b. individual psychology
c. analytical psychotherapy
d. existential/Gestalt
e. person-centered
f. behavioral
g. cognitive
9. What type of therapy are you practicing if you are very interested in the message inherent in my having a long-lost friend call me out of the blue, just hours after I was thinking about him?
a. psychodynamic
b. individual psychology
c. analytical psychotherapy
d. existential/Gestalt
e. person-centered
f. behavioral
g. cognitive
PLEASE
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October 14, 2011
I live in England and have been seeing psychiatrists, psychologists, psychotherapists and the like since I was 12 and I am now 18. For many years I’ve struggled with clinical depression and anxiety and have been medicated for the past six years on various kinds of anti depressants and antipsychotics.
Recently I was diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder, though my psychiatric doctor called it Emotionally Unstable Personality Disorder, which in my understanding is not actually a diagnostic term that is recognised by the DSM or the NHS. This perplexed me as to how he could use this term.
Aside from that, I’ve had four sessions with a psychologist who decided she wouldn’t use any diagnosis in referral to me and decided that she didn’t want to diagnose me, however my psychiatric doctor already has! So I’m receiving mixed messages from both, and it’s confusing as hell.
But not only that, it is my understanding that I should be offered at least a year of psychotherapy and possible Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and Dialectic Behavioural Therapy, but instead, yesterday the psychologist decided she was ending her sessions with me.
Now I feel abandonned and helpless. I have a history of mental instability including multiple hospitalisations due to suicide attempts and severe self harming behaviour. From November to July this year I was hospitalised THREE times, each of those times told I may not recover.
I feel like I’ve been failed. I struggle with every day life and my symptoms are worsening despite taking Venlafaxine and Quetiapine. This is one of the many times I’ve reach out for help and haven’t received any. I feel like giving up. Life can be unbearable living with these conditions and I don’t know how much more I can take.
Please help.
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September 27, 2011
This person has a B.A. from an ivy league school in Molecular Biology and an M.A. in Restorative Practices from IIRP (institite of restorative practices). The program appears to be a 30 credit program and the state requires 60 for licensure. They are an ordained minister from a metaphysical program that taught angel healing, tarot card reading, divinatian, house cleansing, pet healings, reflexology, that sort of thing which they offer.In addition they practice massage therapy, hypnosis and regresions, meditation, shamanic journeying, past life work, raindrop therapy, and use and sell essential oils along with their oracle readings.
They are now advertsing counseling sessions via email blasts and on their website offering "integrative therapy sessions" where they "integrate psycotherapy, energy work, and bodywork" for 0-5 hr, as well as "Consling:Psychotherapy" for 5/session, claiming an M.A. in counseling but the program is called "restorative practices" and I don’t know precisely what that is, I lookedo their website and there is a restorative practices in youth counseling but its cirriculam looks related to teaching students and they are advertsing to adults via a 270+ person email blast.
Is this legal? Is this ethical? Does the integrative work fall under holism or dual relationship? I know it is against PA licensure to misrepresent yourself but that ordained ministers are allowed to counsel… but can they use the term "psychotherapy" and pair it with massage without having proessional somatic-psychotheapeutic training lke the Rosen Method or Hellerwork? Is the public at risk? They also offer phone counseling sessions where a person can pay through paypal without ever meeting face to face, and I believe that the ACA says you need supervision for that sort of thing at first. I am in an ethics class for professional counselors now and thought this real lif encounter would be a great lesson for me to learn from, please post any FACTS that you have with relative citations.
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September 14, 2011
It would be for social phobias.
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September 14, 2011
I’m a junior in high school so I really need to know
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September 13, 2011
Okay, so I am in my second year of community college. I know what university I want to transfer to so I have been very mindful of the classes I have taken thus far. I am going to receive my AA degree next summer. I want to be a clinical psychologist. Unfortunately this college does not offer a BA here so I have to transfer. So here is a list of classes that I should take at the university. I only need to take 9 credit hours (three electives). Which ones should I take that would be relevant to become a clinical psychologist?
PSYC 2133 - THEORIES OF PERSONALITY Credits: 3
PSYC 2343 - CHILD & ADOLESCENT DEVELOPMENT Credits: 3
PSYC 2353 - ADULT DEVELOPMENT AND AGING Credits: 3
PSYC 2433 - HISTORY & SYSTEMS PSYCHOLOGY Credits: 3
PSYC 3003 - ABNORMAL PSYCHOLOGY Credits: 3
PSYC 3043 - COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY Credits: 3
PSYC 3052 - FIELD EXPERIENCE IN PSYCHOLOGY Credits: 2
PSYC 3533 - PSYCHOTHERAPY: THEORY & PRACTICE Credits: 3
PSYC 3633 - PROFESSIONAL/ETHICAL/LEGAL ISSUES Credits: 3
PSYC 3733 - SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY Credits: 3
PSYC 4033 - PHYSIOLOGICAL PSYCHOLOGY Credits: 3
PSYC 4133 - STATISTICAL METHODS Credits: 3
PSYC 4423 - EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY I Credits: 3
PSYC 4433 - EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY II Credits: 3
Thank you in advance
I am confused as well but the university website said that these classes are all electives and we only need 9 credit hours worth of electives.
Thank you both for taking the time out to answer! It’s hard to choose a best answer because you both helped me. Yep, I know that it will be a lot of work but this is something that I really want to do 
Thanks again!
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September 12, 2011
To follow some previous questions I have had on the subject I was wondering if, a stimulant of any kind could be used to help with conditions based on a patients experiences with particular problems they are having which cannot be classified specifically into a particular field. I have so far been diagnosed with a variety of conditions such as having schizophrenia, psychosis and now currently aspergers. Although the features of these conditions may be prominent the illness itself is not and have disregarded there diagnosis as is a completely inaccurate definition, basing it only what I have explained instead of identifying what is actually is there.
I do not believe you can possibly diagnosis with a singular and linear measurement of a mental illness and think you can treated for it, as it works against the idea of treating the problem with another problem, that is giving you a medication for a resulting problem not the things that have caused it. One then might consider therapy, and yes, although this can work in a certain degree and context it is far different from what I have in mind towards helping myself be better mentally.
The definition is generally misunderstood so I’ll explain as best I can, so please try not to confuse this with an established field of whatever within mental health, as I feel it is something entirely individualistic and would be, in the sense, for everyone, here’s how It works.
i. Thinking has become very difficult, in a large variety of different ways. I seem to be thinking of everything on the same kind of wavelength and that all information is clustered together into a mesh of information that is difficult to process both as and from of it. There seems to be no structure to my definitions which can utilize and understand how I can really work effectively, you may think this as an everyday kind of thing, but again please do not confuse it into completely different context.
ii. Certain, visual experiences seem distorted as such, as I feel I have had a lack of stimulation which has resulted in a difficulty in processing the information, as I can literally see things obscurely.
iii. Social interaction seems pointless in many ways, not just it by itself, but how it works inside this particular system, it is going to seem abnormal to people who do it the way that it is done, therefore it may easy to say I have a problem with social interaction as a singular factor, not anything else that that relates to and essentially derives from which can explain why that is. I know, as I feel I cannot really get across my point to people the point which will make them understand that these particular systems are actually illogical.
So my question (At last) is that, can someone under there own specific definitions, create there own diagnosis in conjunction with a doctor/psychiatrist that can help treat conditions they are having, irregardless of any specific field in which it cannot be put under, and ultimately calculate a medication that would work for them individualistically?, whatever that may be. In this case some kind of a stimulant.
and btw I am not looking for something to get me high, I am not trying to abuse anything here, just need to get what I need to work properly.
Be as thorough as you can with you answer, and again try not be bound by using "textbook" knowledge in your response, if of course that is the case. thanks very much.
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September 12, 2011
I am extremely interested in the subject, and I feel that people must major in what interests and enthralls them the most, right? Well, compared to any other subject it seems that Psychology is the one of the few where I can absorb naturally because of my natural liking for the subject. (I even buy my own books about detailed psychology topics that aren’t required for school).
However, I do not want to become a counselor, psychiatrist, or any other type of counseling position no matter what. Neither do I want to be in a constant teaching position (teacher, professor). I’m a little bit wary because I’m uncertain as to what job opportunities there are for a major in Psychology? (Nothing too difficult or nothing that requires additional schooling like lawyer, or forensic anthropologist, etc.) Thank you so much!
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September 11, 2011
Can i find online Therapies ? Is it possible if yes please let me know webs and if not than what is the best place to for somebody because country where i am living having issues to find any Therapies . Your help will be appropriated.
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September 9, 2011
Isn’t that a value judgement? It can prove the existance of "chemical differences" but how it prove that one is right and one is wrong? Even if a person is having "trouble" what if the trouble is because of society’s narrowness and closed-mindedness and not because the person’s brain is "ill".
You can’t just say there’s a chemical cause therefore its an imbalance or an illness. Homosexuality has a chemical cause is it an illness? Science also shows chemical differences between personality types like extraversion and introversion but neither is considered a disorder.
Shouldn’t science strive for objectivity? By using words like "illness" and "imbalance" psychiatry is taking on the role of "values philosophy" not objective science. Its as silly as if physicists decided to label gold a "good" element because its shiny and worth a lot of money and lead "evil" because its poisonous. It would be more objective to categorize different brain phenotypes without labeling whether it is "normal" or "abnormal" or "ill" or "well" and then let the customer decide if they don’t like the way their brain works and would like to get some therapy(even if the patient fits the "average" brain type and wants to switch for example a person might want to become a little hypomanic to get more energy to put into a job or another example if a "normal" person wants to take drugs to be more like aspergers in order to quickly learn computer programming).
Of course there are those cases where a person’s mind works in a way that brings them into violent conflict(rather than simply disease) with society such as psychosis. I still don’t think there should be forced treatment in that case. Instead mandatory detention if a person is convicted of a crime regardless of mental state that is serious enough to require protecting the public and then if its determined that altering the mental state might allow them to reintegrate and still keep society safe(even if their mental state was statistically normal before but they are changing to a sedate state that would nearly eliminate the possibility of violent behavior) they should be offered probation on the condition they take the medication but not forced to take the medication, still given the option of staying in detention if they choose.
No I’m not a scientologist. Scientologists are a judgemental bunch who tell people society calls "mentally ill" and then some(they think homosexuals are sick too)
I’m not antipsychiatry. I just believe it should be consumer-oriented. If someone’s happy with the way their brain works who are we to tell them they’re wrong and if someone’s unhappy who are we to tell them to just "tough it out"?
Your subjective experience of distress over your mental state was a real one and its a good thing they could help you, I’m just saying if someone’s alright with the way they are and if they aren’t hurting anyone let them be.
I’m also in favor of the freedom to take drugs to alter the mind. It all goes to cognitive liberty.
I think if our society was more open about that and studied it more(whenever they clamor to ban something because "we don’t know the effects yet" they never actually get around to studying the effects much and then they suppress any positive studies) we’d quickly discover all the intracacies of how our minds function and what will cause X or Y, so if I want more focus I can take Z, if I want more persceptiveness then A(focus and persceptiveness are opposites, focus too much miss the big picture, perceive too much miss the details), If I want to dance all night I could take B, if I need to sit perfectly still C.
We could reach a stage of being able to perfectly fine-tunely alter themselves at the whim of the individual according to the preferences of the individual. Far from drug use hurting productivity people could maximize productivity at work & fun off work with the right drugs.
I got distracted.
The part about scientologists I was trying to say scientologists don’t tell "mentally different" people who feel like they don’t need to change that they’re fine and society is misjudging them, they tell them they need to get rid of their "thetans"(kind of like how Christians would blame anything they hated on demons hundreds of years ago).
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