Intro

Question 1

Interviewing

Answer 1

• gathering data
• providing information and advice
• suggesting workable alternatives

Question 2

Coaching

Answer 2

• partnering with clients in a thought provoking and creative process
• inspiring them to maximize their personal and professional potential

Question 3

COunselling

Answer 3

an intensive and personal process for clients, focused on listening and developing strategies for change and growth

Question 4

Psychotherapy

Answer 4

focused on deep-seated and entrenched client issues, requiring more time for resolution

Question 5

Why is the term client used?

Answer 5

• ‘patient’ is paternalistic, implies passivity removing autonomy
• ‘client’ = term by Carl Rogers (humanistic psychologist)

Question 6

Pseudosciences involve

Answer 6

• overuse of ad-hoc immunising hypotheses
• exaggerated claims
• over-reliance on anecdotes
• absence of connectivity to other research
• lack of review by peers
• lack of self-correction when contrary evidence is published
• talk of ‘proof’

Question 7

Thinking critically:

Answer 7

• name of principle
• extraordinary claims (the more extraordinary the claim, the more evidence required)
• testing predictions (can the piece of research make testable predictions? is there connectivity?)
• occam’s razor (are explanations simple and logical)
• replicability (can results be replicated)
• ruling out rival hypotheses
• correlation vs causation

Question 8

current issues in treatment

Answer 8

• Western therapies are being scrutinised because they lack applicability to other cultures
• some groups experience higher rates of mental illness than others (Indigenous, LGBQTAI+, disabled groups)
• deinstitutionalisation (movement away from inpatient treatment to community based treatment)