Nurse Therapists

Nurse therapists in behavioural psychotherapy.

Five registered mental nurses (R.M.N.s) were trained over two years to become behavioural psychotherapists for adult neurotic disorders. They achieved results comparable to those obtained with similar patients and methods by psychologists and psychiatrists. Similar results were maintained when over a third year the therapists were seconded to work in four hospitals and a general practice. Patie...

Health reform and politics 101 for psychiatric nurse therapists.

Occupational Therapists\' Clinical Reasoning: A Qualitative Study

Objectives: Clinical reasoning is at the heart of clinical work; it is affected by different field factors. A clear understanding of the reasoning process could solve practitioners' problems on how to make their underlying theories, assumptions and values more explicit. The aim of this research is to understand how clinical reasoning process is formed in the context of occupational therapists w...

Types of therapists

Addressing anxiety is no small feat, and it sounds like you?re headed in a great direction by considering therapy. As you?ve gleaned, a ?therapist? can mean any number of specialists. With all the choices out there ? Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW), Marriage and Family Therapist (MFT), Doctor of Psychology (PsyD) Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), psychiatrist, psychologist, etc. ? how do you n...

Types of therapists

Addressing anxiety is no small feat, and it sounds like you?re headed in a great direction by considering therapy. As you?ve gleaned, a ?therapist? can mean any number of specialists. With all the choices out there ? Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW), Marriage and Family Therapist (MFT), Doctor of Psychology (PsyD) Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), psychiatrist, psychologist, etc. ? how do you n...