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This page is a scratchpad for [[psychotherapy]] related issues of the psychology WikiProject. The term "psychotherapy" might be used differently in different parts of the world (see [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Psychology&diff=253848426&oldid=253714506]); for the purposes of this project, with "psychotherapy" all forms of psychological treatments are intended; psychodynamic, cognitive, behavioral, humanistic... |
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== Requested articles == |
== Requested articles == |
Revision as of 22:25, 24 November 2008
This page is a scratchpad for psychotherapy related issues of the psychology WikiProject. The term "psychotherapy" might be used differently in different parts of the world (see [1]); for the purposes of this project, with "psychotherapy" all forms of psychological treatments are intended; psychodynamic, cognitive, behavioral, humanistic...
Feel free to add, change and reorganize this page—possibly, it might evolve into something else. (A "taskforce"? A "subproject"? A style guide?)
Requested articles
- Clinical significance – important concept; a treatment outcome can have statistical significance, but still not have significant effect for the client
- Common factors theory – related to the Dodo bird verdict
- Allegience effect – the tendency of scientific studies of psychotherapy to be biased in favor of the authors' allegience
- Dismantling study/component analysis – interesting method in psychotherapy research
- Booster session – don't know if it deserves an article of its own, but anyway
Content
Here are some suggestions on what an article on a psychotherapeutic system might cover.
- History:
- Who developed the psychotherapy?
- What was the historical context of its development?
- In what ways has it been further developed?
- The treatment:
- What is it? For broad paradigms like CBT, Psychodynamics: What unites all therapies of this kind?
- What is it not? How is it different from other psychotherapies?
- What conditions or problems is it meant to treat?
- The typical course of therapy: How long is a therapy, how often, does it follow a specific structure
- What does the therapy contain? Methods: Talking, free association, behavioral assignments...
- Modality: Individual, group...
- Outcome studies: Efficacy and effectiveness, possibly cost-effectiveness
- Philosophical base
- Theory: How is it meant to work? What is the proposed mechanism of change?
- Usage:
- Who uses it? Where is it used? When was it used?
- Influence on popular culture
Style issues
- Capitalization:
- Broad categories of psychotherapy, like cognitive behavioral therapy and psychodynamic therapy, are not capitalized.
- Specific systems, like Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy, are capitalized.