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Therapy The treatment of disease or some physical, mental, or behavioural condition or ailment by a given approach or various approaches, involving the management and care of a patient or client for the purpose of remediating or at least moderating a diagnosed disorder.
Psychotherapy is a set of psychological interventions designed to help people resolve emotional, behavioural, and interpersonal problems and to improve the quality of patients’ or clients’ lives.
Evidence-based approach Generally: therapeutic approaches having a firm empirical foundation demonstrating effectiveness. Otherwise termed empirically-supported treatments, evidence-based practices or treatments. (see also: efficacy, experimental group, scientific approach, pseudo-science, systematic evidence, evolution, anecdotal evidence, (conceptual) models, operational definition, critical thinking, theory (scientific) , falsifiability, testability).
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