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  2. Psychological intervention - Wikipedia

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    Psychological interventions can also be used to promote good mental health in order to prevent mental disorders. These interventions are not tailored towards treating a condition but are designed to foster healthy emotions, attitudes and habits. Such interventions can improve quality of life even when mental illness is not present. [1]

  3. Psychotherapy - Wikipedia

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    The American Psychological Association adopted a resolution on the effectiveness of psychotherapy in 2012 based on a definition developed by American psychologist John C. Norcross: "Psychotherapy is the informed and intentional application of clinical methods and interpersonal stances derived from established psychological principles for the ...

  4. Supportive psychotherapy - Wikipedia

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    As a dyadic treatment that is characterized by use of direct measures to ameliorate symptoms and to maintain, restore, or improve self-esteem, adaptive skills, and psychological (ego) function, the treatment itself works to observe relationships (real or transferential) and both current and past patterns of emotional or behavioral response.

  5. Psychoeducation - Wikipedia

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    Psychoeducation (a portmanteau of psychological education) is an evidence-based therapeutic intervention for patients and their loved ones that provides information and support to better understand and cope with illness.

  6. Cognitive intervention - Wikipedia

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    Cognitive intervention focuses on addressing and changing beliefs and attitudes as well as improving cognition.Notably, a common domain of interventions is the inspection of past experiences that led to formations of certain beliefs and attitudes.

  7. Treatment of mental disorders - Wikipedia

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    Mental disorders are classified as a psychological condition marked primarily by sufficient disorganization of personality, mind, and emotions to seriously impair the normal psychological and often social functioning of the individual. Individuals diagnosed with certain mental disorders can be unable to function normally in society.

  8. Clinical psychology - Wikipedia

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    One important field is health psychology, the fastest-growing employment setting for clinical psychologists in the past decade. [7] Other major changes include the impact of managed care on mental health care; an increasing realization of the importance of knowledge relating to multicultural and diverse populations; and emerging privileges to ...

  9. Health psychology - Wikipedia

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    Recent advances in psychological, medical, and physiological research have led to a new way of thinking about health and illness. This conceptualization, which has been labeled the biopsychosocial model, views health and illness as the product of a combination of factors including biological characteristics (e.g., genetic predisposition), behavioral factors (e.g., lifestyle, stress, health ...