PSYCH 111 Chapter Notes - Chapter IX: Meta-Analysis, Gene V. Glass
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The branch of psychology that focuses on researching, diagnosing, and treating psychological problems is clinical psychology. You do not have to be crazy to need psychotherapy. The vast majority of people treated by counselors and psychotherapists are not mentally ill but are simply having problems in life that they are unable to resolve through their usual coping mechanisms and support networks. Assorted styles of psychotherapy, although they stem from the same basic goal: to help you change your life in ways that make you a happier, more productive, and more effective person. Although researchers have conducted many comparison studies, most of them tend to support the method used by the psychologists conducting the study - no surprise there. To make matters worse, the studies are spread over a wide range of books and journals, making a fully informed judgement extremely difficult. To fill this gap in the research literature on psychotherapy techniques, in 1977 mary.
