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All therapies for psychological disorders have a common goal:

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to reduce or remove the client’s symptoms and improve the client’s ability to function effectively in everyday life.

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Psychotherapy is the treatment of emotional, behavioral, and interpersonal problems through the use of techniques designed to help clients understand

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their problems and modify troubling feelings, behaviors, or relationships.

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The various types of psychotherapy (such as psychoanalysis, behavioral therapy, and cognitive therapy)

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derive from psychology’s major perspectives on personality and psychological disorders.

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Biomedical therapies are based on a different perspective that views psychological disorders

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as illnesses that should be treated with medical procedures and therapies.

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These therapies use psychoactive medications or other biologically-based techniques such as electroconvulsive therapy.

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The goal of biomedical therapies is to physically change the brain’s functioning, usually by altering brain chemistry.