All the methods of therapy for psychological problems have general goals and basic features in common. List and describe two of these general goals and three of these basic features.
What will be an ideal response?
The goals of psychotherapy are to provide psychological support, to eliminate troublesome behaviors, to develop new and better behaviors, and to promote insight or self-exploration. The features of psychotherapy include a client who is suffering and seeks relief, a trained person (therapist) who attempts to provide help to the client, a theory or rationale used to explain the client's problems, a set of procedures for dealing with the client's problems, and a special relationship between the client and therapist.
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