The field of therapy must appear to be a bewildering maze of choices to the average citizen. Suppose someone asks you to make sense out of this maze
Can you state the basic goals of the therapeutic process, list the major approaches, and describe the major types of therapists and therapeutic settings?
What will be an ideal response?
Answer: Goals include: reaching a diagnosis; proposing probable etiology; prognosis; treatment planning and implementation. Major approaches: biomedical; cognitive; behavioral; psychodynamic; existential-humanistic; integrative. Therapists: clinical social workers; psychologists; psychiatrists; psychoanalysts; pastoral counselors. Therapeutic settings: hospitals, clinics, schools, private offices, e-mail.
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