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Originally Posted by Kris Psychotherapy
In today’s society, sexual abuse, suicide, and domestic issues run rampant.). |
How can issues run rampant?
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Originally Posted by Kris People have problems in their lives that are not easy to get ride of. |
I am sure that is true. But do we get rid of problems or do we solve them?
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Originally Posted by Kris They need help, and there is one main way of accomplishing this help. It is through psychotherapy. |
I would say
getting them this help. (Is psychotherapy their only choice?)
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Originally Posted by Kris People need psychotherapy as the center of treatment for emotional and mental disorders. |
Why do they need it? Do you need "center of treatment" there? (I think not.)
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Originally Posted by Kris Many people claim psychotherapy and prove it effective with five properties that characterize it. |
How do they claim it? How do they prove it effective? Do you think it is easy to understand what the writer is trying to say with that sentence? Could you write it so that the meaning is more clear?
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Originally Posted by Kris Different techniques are used for psychotherapy studies, some have flaws and rebuttals. |
Can you tell me what that sentence means? Do you know what the punctuation flaw in that sentence is?
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Originally Posted by Kris Disease and psychotherapy go hand in hand, and there are therapeutic sections that go with it. |
What does that mean? Does it mean that psychotherapy causes disease? What are therapeutic sections?
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Originally Posted by Kris “The term psychotherapist is unlicensed: anyone… can call himself a psychotherapist. The same applies to the term therapist. Psychologist, psychiatrist, and certified social workers, on the other hand, require some kind of licensure. The practitioner can not call himself by these titles unless he has met certain state and national requirements” (Credentials). |
What does that mean (especially the first sentence)? Why is it in quotes? How is it related to what came before it?
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Originally Posted by Kris Many people that are considered psychotherapists, but their practices are not the same. |
I suggest that you rewrite that so it is a sentence.
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Originally Posted by Kris Some have a higher education than others. |
What does that mean? What is a higher education?
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Originally Posted by Kris A psychiatrist is considered a psychotherapist. |
Which psychiatrist are you talking about?
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Originally Posted by Kris Few of these doctors go to a psychoanalytic institute, but they go to college for about eight years. |
Are they doctors before or after they go to college?
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Originally Posted by Kris They specialize in medicine, so they are able to prescribe drugs. They usually have additional training in psychology. |
Why do they specialize in medicine? Is it because their original intention is to become doctors? Who is
they?
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Originally Posted by Kris The state examining board gives both a psychotherapist and a psychiatrist their license. |
Why?
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Originally Posted by Kris If the state-level exams are not passed, the doctors can not legally call themselves psychologists (Nelson). |
What does that mean? Who is supposed to pass those exams?
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Originally Posted by Kris A psychoanalyst is also considered a psychotherapist. |
Which one?
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Originally Posted by Kris These doctors go to an analytic institute. |
Which one?
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Originally Posted by Kris Some institutions accept people with little or no background in the field (Credentials 2). |
What field? Can you be more specific?
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Originally Posted by Kris Psychologists have a Ph.D. and some have a Psy.D. in psychology. “Masters level psychologists are not addressed as doctor and have only about two years of graduate training” (Credentials 2). Social workers are another group of people that are considered psychotherapists. |
Is there a problem with agreement in number in the first sentence? Who considers social workers psychotherapists? They are considered psychotherapists by whom?
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Originally Posted by Kris Psychotherapists are specially trained to be able to help people with their problems, unlike family members and friends. |
So you are better off getting help from a psychotherapist than getting help from your family or your friends? Wow!
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Originally Posted by Kris Although they can give you some options, they can not give you all of the options. |
Who does "they" refer to--psychotherapists or family and friends? Do you really need all of the options? Options for what?
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Originally Posted by Kris Psychotherapy is effective to a majority of the people that experience it. |
How is it effective? How do you know it is effective? Are you sure it does less harm than good? Are you sure it is cost effective?
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Originally Posted by Kris The efficacy study and the effectiveness study are two methods used to find out if psychotherapy works. |
Does it work?
You quote very liberally in that piece, using the words of others more than your own. Why is that? Aren't you sure what your own opinions are?
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[Edited for spelling and punctuation.]