Imagine you are working at a center dedicated to recommending local psychotherap

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Imagine you are working at a center dedicated to recommending local psychotherapists to people dealing with psychological disorders. In the first day you receive four calls, each from an individual dealing with a different problem: one is suffering from severe depression, another has a fear of spiders, one is dealing with intense and irrational compulsions, and the last has been arguing incessantly with her spouse. For each of these callers which type of therapy would you recommend and why? Would the ethnicity of those individuals influence your choice?

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The Caller who is suffering from depression cannot be treated in just one phone call as it requires many sessions to be attended.Psychotherpy is used in depression to alleviate the underlying causes for depression.It could be childhood trauma .Depression is a deep rooted problem, it can be due to many factors pshysiological or psychological.Psychotherapy can be combined with cognitive behaviour therapy to alter the thought process.However severe cases of depression require medication with therapy.The other three cases can be treated with CBT.They need to alter their thinking process ,how they can bring about a change by changing their thoughts and behaviour to overcome a situation.Ethnicity should not influence in such circumstances as we should be dedicated to the profession to serve them in times of distress and it would be against professional ethics to decide whom we want to serve.

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