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== Style issues == |
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* '''[[MOS:CAPS|Capitalization]]:''' The capitalization style of recent [[WP:RS|reliable sources]] should be followed. Generally speaking, broad categories of psychotherapy, like [[cognitive behavioral therapy]] and [[psychodynamic therapy]], are not capitalized. Specific systems, like [[Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing]], may be capitalized. |
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== Important pages and categories == |
== Important pages and categories == |
Revision as of 10:52, 28 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: The capitalization style of recent reliable sources should be followed. Generally speaking, broad categories of psychotherapy, like cognitive behavioral therapy and psychodynamic therapy, are not capitalized. Specific systems, like Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, may be capitalized.