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"Research has shown that numerous psychological interventions are efficacious, effective, and cost-effective. However, these interventions are used infrequently with patients who would benefit from them, in part because clinical psychologists have not made a convincing case for the use of these interventions ... and because clinical psychologists do not themselves use these interventions even when given the opportunity to do so." In
Psychological Science in the Public Interest, psychologists Timothy Baker, Richard McFall, and Varda Shoham argue that clinical psychology needs to embrace its status as a science in order to save itself as a profession. If that's too long, Walter Mischel --
yes, the marshmallow guy -- writes an accompanying editorial. :
"The disconnect between much of clinical practice and the advances in psychological science is an unconscionable embarrassment..."
posted by escabeche
on Oct 26, 2009 -
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In 1975 a young divorced mother named "Gloria" volunteers, in an attempt to find some answers to the problems in her life, to be videotaped being a client to three rather new psychotherapies:
Person-Centered Therapy,
Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy, and
Gestalt Therapy. Not only is she filmed participating in each therapy, she receiving the therapies from the respective founders of each therapy,
Carl Rogers (
Part 1, sadly it's cut short),
Fritz Perls (
Part 2), and
Albert Ellis (
Part 3). They all take the time before each therapy to explain their methods and there beliefs and how the therapy will go.
posted by Del Far
on Mar 11, 2008 -
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