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 [...]

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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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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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The Years of the Heart, part I
(For Mythical Tales)
When I was five I was an old man
Standing on a ziggurat staring at my whole world’s devastation.
When I was eight I was a jolly drunk
Screaming from the tree-tops.
At 10 
I was an elder statesman.
In love, a logician, and a great dead, author.
At 13 I was a kid [...]

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I fear I might have an anal expulsive fixation. Which is to say that I believe that my parents were very lenient with me when I was potty training as a kid, which led me to not be as thorough or caring in controlling my sphincter, according to Freud this would mean I am bad [...]

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Biomedical and psychotherapy are two basic approaches to treating psychological disorders. A number of approaches fall under the category of psychotherapy, but they all include the following four essential characteristics:
1.Systematic interaction between a client and a therapist
2.Based on psychological theory and research
3.Influences a client’s thoughts, feelings, and behavior
4.Used in treating disorders, adjustment problems, and [...]

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I’m a Sophomore at a University and I’m majoring in Sociology with a minor in community health. I just find both of those subjects really interesting and I wanted to major in something that I actually liked. I heard there is a wide range of careers that you can get with sociology, from psychotherapy to [...]

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Please, if you cannot understand the condition of a person suffering from clinical depression, don’t reply to this question.
I’m a major depressive disorder patient,as said by doctors. I can’t describe what exactly it is! But its my 4th year being in the same no-emotion state. Sometimes the only change in this state z restlessness, [...]

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Available Services
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Case Management Services
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Day Rehabilation Program
Individual Psychotherapy
Medication Support
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Help Group
Neuro-Psych Testing
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All of the above services are available through the case manager that is assigned to you after eligibility for services has been established. Your case manager will [...]

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Available Services
Assessment
Crisis Intevention Services
Case Management Services
CalWORKs
Day Rehabilation Program
Individual Psychotherapy
Medication Support
Medication Safe Keeping Program
Money Management
Dual Diagnosis Anonymous Self
Help Group
Neuro-Psych Testing
Benefits Establishment
Emergency Shelter Placement and Housing Assistance
All of the above services are available through the case manager that is assigned to you after eligibility for services has been established. Your case manager will [...]

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I’m going to be a freshman at SUNY Cortland next year
I’ve been thinking about whether I should go on the path to becoming a psychologist or a psychiatrist. I really like how a psychiatrist has the authorization to prescribe medication, but I also like how a psychologist primarily performs psychotherapy. I’m leaning towards becoming [...]

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Certain groups like pedophiles, sex offenders, etc. are so stigmatized right now that people are constantly saying things like they want to kill/beat/basically lynch these people. Why don’t we put more effort into getting these people psychotherapy than making them into social outcasts and forcing them into hiding. I mean, I see the [...]

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It says that I do really hard work and get little payoff. After having met a few people born on my same date, I wonder if such is true. Pluto is dominant on my date. Scorpios are supposed to be selfless and social minded, emotional sensitive… How can I be both [...]

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