The author has chosen seven major trends to discuss here. These are not a complete list but it discusses more interesting points to note in the evolving field of psychotherapy. These trends and themes are of great importance to the way we view the current and evolution of these practices.

The seven topics that were discussed in this article were psycho-economics, the new client, gender and psychotherapy, psychotherapy and the elderly, drug therapy and psychotherapy, professional training at the doctoral level and beyond and pragmatism.

Psycho-economics: a lot of money is spent on mental health. The federal government, insurance companies and self-insured co-operation have a great impact on how services are rendered. Some of the terms the author use to descried how most therapist livelihood is impacted are cost effectiveness, accountability and pre-authorization. One cost effectiveness, accountability and pre-authorization .One cost-effective way is a trend to use brief therapy, such as brief solution counseling and therapy (SOCT) instead of more lengthy and cos

Professional training at the doctoral level and beyond, this is a very important issue. This stresses importance of graduate training and is seen at the national level by the board of new to directorate in education.

Seniors are the fastest growing population. The article states the psychologist is becoming more sensitive to the elderly and that there are only a few graduate programs and professional schools that offer training in these area psychologists. Therapist have used a number of different techniques for treatments, they include the use of a cognitive behavior approach, combination of drugs and interpersonal psychotherapy, combination physical and mental health services. “Schmid and Rouslin showed (as cited in Editorial, 1994) when working with clients, it is of utmost importance to include caregivers as they make a great difference in the effectiveness of the therapy in the out patient group. The elderly has been used as an important focus in the family therapy.” It was also suggested by “ Erickson (as cited in Editorial, 1994) that more research needs to be conducted to assist with a development of measures to assess therapeutic efficiency.”

tly therapy as seen in psychodynamic reframe. Also a great amount of money is to spend on in-patient setting, such as psychiatric hospitals, which has increased their intake by forty percent. This is supported by state of law, which mandates mental health coverage. Hospitalized treatment can be invasive and expensive diagnostic procedure and treatment intervention may not necessarily be in the best interest of the client.

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