Marriage and Family Therapy (MFTs)
This is the average number of sessions a marriage and family therapist has with their clients
What is 12 sessions? MFTs typically practice short-term therapy
To earn the credentials of a psychiatrist, one must complete these three post-undergraduate educational and clinical hurdles.
What are medical school, an internship, and a residency?
To enter into independent clinical practice, a counseling psychologist must earn this academic degree.
What is a doctoral degree (Ph.D. or Psy.D.), along with a year-long internship?
This field focuses on helping individuals, families, and communities enhance their well-being, often using a person-in-environment perspective.
What is Social Work?
Professionals in this field work primarily within educational settings to support students' learning, mental health, and behavior.
What is School Psychology?
This is the number of years of clinical practice MFTs typically have in the field of marriage and family therapy.
What is 13 years?
Unlike clinical psychologists, psychiatrists primarily rely on this medical approach to manage and mitigate symptoms of mental illness.
What is psychotropic medication (or pharmacotherapy)?
While clinical psychologists frequently assess and treat acute psychopathology, counseling psychologists are less likely to work with populations presenting with these more severe mental neurodevelopmental and psychiatric disorders.
What are schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and autism?
This credential is the advanced graduate degree typically required to become a licensed independent clinical social worker.
What is a Master of Social Work (MSW)?
This document outlines educational goals and accommodations for students with identified disabilities.
What is an Individualized Education Program (IEP)?
When evaluating and treating clients, marriage and family therapists utilize this primary therapeutic framework to address mental and emotional disorders within couples and families.
What are family systems (or family systems theory)?
A psychiatrist can manage and mitigate mental health symptoms by prescribing these pharmacological classes, which include stimulants, antipsychotics, and mood stabilizers.
What are Antidepressants?
Unlike specialties focused primarily on pathology, counseling psychology emphasizes these positive client attributes alongside environmental influences to prevent and alleviate distress.
What are healthy aspects and strengths?
This branch of social work focuses on diagnosing, treating, and preventing mental, emotional, and behavioral disorders in individual or group settings.
What is Clinical Social Work?
This framework used by school psychologists identifies struggling students early and provides increasingly intensive academic or behavioral interventions.
What is Response to Intervention (RTI) or Multi-Tiered System of Supports (MTSS)?
These are the three graduate program options for individuals who want to pursue a career in marriage and family therapy.
What is a master’s degree (2-3 years), a post-graduate clinical program (3-4 years), or a doctoral program (3-5 years)?
Following an intern year managing general medical patients in a hospital setting, a physician completes three specialized years acquiring clinical competencies in these primary therapeutic components.
What is diagnoses and treatment of mental health, which includes psychotherapy and the use of psychiatric medications along with other treatments?
This foundational therapeutic style, central to person-centered therapy, requires the clinician to display unconditional positive regard, congruence, and accurate empathetic understanding.
What is Client-Centered/Person-Centered therapy (Rogerian)?
This core principle emphasizes supporting clients in making their own choices and controlling their own lives.
What is Client Self-Determination?
Unlike broad intelligence tests, school psychologists use these standardized evaluations to measure a child's practical skills needed for daily living and social functioning.
What are Adaptive Behavior Assessments?
Marriage and family therapists can effectively treat these client conditions.
What are Depression, alcoholism, adolescent drug abuse, obesity, dementia in the elderly, and more?
These are some additional specialized certifications a licensed psychiatrist can get accredited in.
What is Pain medicine, sleep medicine, forensic psychiatry, geriatric psychiatry, and more?
According to the APA definition, counseling psychology focuses specifically on normative life-span development, prevention, and has particular expertise in these two related life areas.
What are work and career issues?
Named after a pioneer in the field, this historic 1880s movement brought social workers into urban neighborhoods.
What is the Settlement House Movement (or Jane Addams / Hull House)?
Beyond a master's degree, this specialist-level graduate degree (typically 60+ credit hours including a full-year internship) is the standard entry-level credential for practicing school psychologists in most US states.
What is an Educational Specialist (Ed.S.) degree?