Identify Clinical Approaches to Treat Mental Health Issues
Identify Clinical Approaches to Treat Mental Health Issues
Prepare a table of historical influences and modern descriptions that identify and
explain five commonly used contemporary clinical approaches in psychotherapy in the
treatment of mental illness. Your audience for this table is a class of graduate students
who will use your table as a study guide as they learn the history of clinical psychology.
Column 1 in your table of influences should present the commme used name of the
approach and a brief definition as well as one or two key aspects of its practice today.
Column 2 should list one or two of its principle theorists or founders with a few
important details about who they were and what they contributed.
Column 3 should contain one or two individuals or traditions from history that
influenced the development of the approach.
Column 4 should include a brief statement of your assessment of the efficacy of the
approach.
You can include a brief introduction to the table and/or a brief conclusion after the
table if you wish, but a reference list is required-
Support your assignment with at least five scholany resources. In addition to these
specified resources, other appropriate scholarly resources, including older articles,
may be included.
Length: 5-7 pages, not including title and reference pages
Your assignment should demonstrate thoughtful consideration of the ideas anddirectly to this topic. Your response should reflect scholarly writing and current APA
standards.
Reference List:
Benjamin, L- T. (2005). A history of clinical psychology as a profession in America (and
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Granek, L (2010). Grief as pathology: The evolution of grief theory in psychology from
Freud to the present. History of Psychology, 13(1), 46-73.
Mercer, J. (2011). The concept of psychological regression: Metaphors, mapping,
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Taylor, E. (2000). Psychotherapeutics and the problematic origins of clinical psychology in America

