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therapy, the time required, problems of therapist—client “fit,”
definitions of the client’s “problem,” and determination of when therapy has succeeded or failed.
4. Review basic aspects of therapy based on behavioristic, psychodynamic, and humanistic
principles.
5. Conduct the demonstration on role-playing a clinical interaction.
GENERAL INTRODUCTION
The decision a clinical psychologist or psychiatrist must make in prescribing the kind of therapy a patient
should receive, or even whether he or she should be given any at all, is a complex one. We tend to think of it
as following in a rather straightforward way from analysis of the “facts”, or the patient’s problems. This is
rarely, if ever, true.
The decision regarding the tactics of therapeutic intervention depends on:
1. The therapist’s interpretation of the facts.
2. The therapist’s type of training and orientation. This, in turn, influences his or her definition of
what constitutes behavior pathology and also determines what behavior and casual relations he or
she will focus on (or even notice). Moreover, the therapist is usually trained to administer only a
limited brand of therapy. The therapist’s values about who should be helped (the young or the old,
men or women, influential people or ordinary ones, those with mild problems or those with severe
ones, rich people or poor ones, attractive people or unattractive ones, interesting people or
uninteresting ones, etc.).
3. The therapist’s attitudes about what behavior is desirable. Should homosexuals be turned into
heterosexuals?