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List of psychotherapies - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (204 words) |
 | It is an incomplete list and new or minor approaches are still being added. |
 | See the main article Psychotherapy for a description of what psychotherapy is and how it developed. |
 | This list contains some approaches that may not call themselves a psychotherapy but have a similar aim, of improving mental health and well being through talk and other means of communication. |
| Psychotherapy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (2738 words) |
 | Psychotherapy is aimed at these problems, and attempts to solve — or help people themselves to solve — them via a number of different approaches and techniques. |
 | Given that psychotherapy is restricted to conversations, practitioners do not have to be medically qualified, but to guarantee the medical safety of psychotherapy, a basic acquaintance with psychiatric and psychological considerations is typically a part of their training. |
 | Psychotherapy outcome research -in which the effectiveness of psychotherapy is measured by questionnaires given to patients before, during, and after treatment- has had difficulty distinguishing between the different types of therapy. |