Nov 1, 2012 · Learn how to choose a psychologist, how therapy works, how long it lasts and what should and shouldn’t happen during psychotherapy.

Jul 31, 2017 · Psychotherapy is communication between patients and therapists that is intended to help people feel better, resolve problems in living and modify their attitudes and behavior in constructive …

Psychotherapy is any psychological service provided by a trained professional that primarily uses forms of communication and interaction to assess, diagnose, and treat dysfunctional emotional reactions, …

Psychotherapy begins with some discussion of a person’s background and the concerns that led him or her to seek help. Following this initial assessment, the patient and therapist come to an agreement, …

Psychologists generally draw on one or more theories of psychotherapy. A theory of psychotherapy acts as a roadmap for psychologists: It guides them through the process of understanding clients and …

In psychotherapy, the representation of reality used to guide therapy is theory. Theory provides the framework for therapeutic action: which questions to ask, what to attend to, how to respond to client …

In 2012, the Council of Representatives approved the resolution that, as a healing practice and professional service, psychotherapy is effective and highly cost-effective. Consequently, …

The genesis of this book came from years of teaching psychotherapy case formulation to clinical psychology graduate students and psychiatry residents. Initially, I taught multiple models of case …

Common factors as a concept was hatched as a sort of metatheory of psychotherapy and—though altered and refined in many ways (e.g., the contextual model of Frank, 1961)—has remained as a …

Nov 20, 2023 · Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing is a structured form of psychotherapy used to help patients with PTSD resolve upsetting memories.