Therapeutic Methods in Psychology

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Therapeutic Methods in Psychology

For your essay this week, address the following:

  • Provide a general description of the various methods of therapy highlighted in Chapter 13, including:
    • Psychodynamic Therapies
    • Humanistic Therapies
    • Behavior Therapies
    • Cognitive Therapies
    • Group Therapies
    • Biological Therapies
  • As part of this description, please be sure to include the various sub-categories of therapy included within each general therapeutic method (for example, under biological therapies, please include a description of drug therapy, electroconvulsive therapy, and psychosurgery);
  • Additionally, describe what research has shown regarding the effectiveness of psychotherapy in general.

Your essay should be at least 500 words in length and should be presented in APA format, including a title page, in-text citations, a running header, page numbers, double spacing, and a reference page. Your assignment should use terms/references directly from the chapter, and all extra outside research must be properly cited.

Massage and the influence it has on quality of life with cancer patients

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Massage and the influence it has on quality of life with cancer patients

The paper is to be  between 5-7 pages in 12 point font excluding title and citations pages. The paper is to be completed in APA style (Research Navigator includes an entire section of drafting and writing a research paper and APA style). The paper must include at least 5 research based articles from peer reviewed journals to support your thesis; in addition you may use other articles. The thesis statement must be highly developed and the rest of the paper should address the thesis. You will be graded on the ability to use examples which support the thesis statement. You must thoughtfully analyze and evaluate the literature. You will be graded on the ability to evaluate the evidence in a balanced manner.

The paper is to deal with a CAH therapy using principles of evidence-based health care learned in this course. They may include such topics as:

  1. Complementary Health Systems of Care
  2. Homeopathic medicine
  3. Ayurvedic medicine
  4. Tibetan and Traditional Chinese medicine
  5. Native American Healing
  6. Naturopathy
  7. Scientific, ethical and legal issues surrounding alternative health systems
  1. Mind-body interventions

III. Biologically-based interventions

  1. Manipulative and body-based therapies
  2. Energy therapies
  1. Lifestyle changes such as nutrition, fitness and stress management.

APA STYLE

Key Principles of Family Systems Theory

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Key Principles of Family Systems Theory

Review the Good Family Theory website and review the information on family systems therapy.

Family Systems Therapy: Good Family Theory. Retrieved from http://www.goodtherapy.org/family-systems-therapy.html

What are the key principles of family systems theory? How were family treatment programs established from this theory?

I need at least 100 words.  

Personality Theories

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Personality Theories
Imagine that you are a psychologist working with a population of individuals that tend to be more difficult to work with, such as sex offenders, elderly patients with dementia, or mentally challenged children. Use the Internet, Argosy University library resources, and your textbook to research the concepts of Rogerian therapy and respond to the following questions:Realistically, do you think it is possible to be congruent and to extend empathy and unconditional positive regard to these clients in a psychotherapeutic context? Why or why not?How do you think clinicians practicing Rogerian therapy would approach these concepts for these clients?How might Rogerian therapy be a helpful strategy for these clients?Is it possible these concepts of Rogerian therapy could hinder treatment?Write your initial response in 4–5 paragraphs. Apply APA standards to citation of sources.