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Title: Myers EXPLORING PSYCHOLOGY (6th Edition in Modules)


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Myers EXPLORING PSYCHOLOGY (6th Edition in
Modules)
  • Module 41
  • Evaluating Psychotherapies
  • James A. McCubbin, PhD
  • Clemson University
  • Worth Publishers

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Evaluating Psychotherapies
  • To whom do people turn for help for psychological
    difficulties?

3
Evaluating Psychotherapies
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Evaluating Psychotherapies
TABLE 41.1 COMPARISON OF PSYCHOLOGY CITATIONS AND
WEB SITES Psychology Journal Topic
Citations Web Sites
Ratio Systematic desensitization 2,277
8,930 1 to 4 Thought field therapy
126 19,100 1 to 152 Therapeutic touch
300 53,900 1 to 180 St. Johns wort
(herbal remedy) 155 352,000 1
to 2,271 Enneagram (personality typing) 24
179,000 1 to 7,458 Using
PsychInfo, September 2003 Using Google,
September 2003
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Therapists and Their Training
  • Clinical psychologists
  • Most are psychologists with a Ph.D. and expertise
    in research, assessment, and therapy,
    supplemented by a supervised internship
  • About half work in agencies and institutions,
    half in private practice

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Therapists and Their Training
  • Clinical or Psychiatric Social Worker
  • A two-year Master of Social Work graduate program
    plus postgraduate supervision prepares some
    social workers to offer psychotherapy, mostly to
    people with everyday personal and family problems
  • About half have earned the National Association
    of Social Workers designation of clinical social
    worker

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Therapists and Their Training
  • Counselors
  • Marriage and family counselors specialize in
    problems arising from family relations
  • Pastoral counselors provide counseling to
    countless people
  • Abuse counselors work with substance abusers and
    with spouse and child abusers and their victims

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Therapists and Their Training
  • Psychiatrists
  • Physicians who specialize in the treatment of
    psychological disorders
  • Not all psychiatrists have had extensive training
    in psychotherapy, but as M.D.s they can prescribe
    medications. Thus, they tend to see those with
    the most serious problems
  • Many have a private practice
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