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Assertiveness Training: A Forgotten Evidence-Based Treatment

Society of Clinical Psychology

It was at this point that the NIMH moved away from a psychosocial model that focused on specific psychological problems and adopted more of a medical model to treating psychological problems, construing psychological problems more as disorders. saying no).

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sanity, madness, the family. and the kettle

Clinical Philosophy

Suffice it for now to say that she's a 28 year old only child who has mainly stayed in a psychiatric hospital during the last 10 years, and who was evacuated to live away from her parents during WWII. Her diagnosis is 'paranoid schizophrenia'; she believes others can read her thoughts and are constantly discussing her.

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Clinicians and Clients Disagree: Implications for Evidence-Based Practice

Society of Clinical Psychology

Within a large clinical sample of those, we compared therapist and client ratings of PD pathology at baseline to indicators of psychosocial functioning collected five years later. Here again, though, recent evidence has suggested that it may not be as simple as trusting the clinician. Discussion Questions.

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