Summarize What One Should Look for in a Prospective Therapist

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Essay

Summarize what one should look for in a prospective therapist and what one should expect out of therapy.

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Definitions:

Concrete Goals

Specific, measurable, attainable, relevant, and time-bound objectives that one intends to achieve.

Systematic Desensitization

A therapeutic method used to reduce phobia or anxiety by gradually exposing the person to the feared object or context while teaching relaxation techniques.

Joseph Wolpe

A South African psychiatrist known for developing systematic desensitization, a technique used in the treatment of phobias and anxiety disorders.

Behaviour Therapy

A type of psychotherapy that focuses on changing undesirable behaviors through conditioning, without delving deeply into past underlying conflicts.