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Exploring Diversity: Racial and Ethnic Factors in Treatment: Should Therapists Be Color-Blind?
Psychotherapy: Psychodynamic, Behavioral, and Cognitive Approaches to Treatment
Psychodynamic Approaches to Therapy Behavioral Approaches to Therapy Cognitive Approaches to Therapy
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Biomedical Therapy: Biological Approaches to Treatment
Drug Therapy Try It! What Are Your Attitudes Toward Patient Rights? Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT) Biomedical Therapies in Perspective Community Psychology: Focus on Prevention Becoming an Informed Consumer of Psychology: Choosing the Right Therapist Psychology on the Web The Case of . . . Tony Scarpetta, the Man Who Couldn’t Relax Full Circle: Treatment of Psychological Disorders
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Psychotherapy: Humanistic and Group Approaches to Treatment
Humanistic Therapy Interpersonal Therapy Group Therapy, Family Therapy, and Self-Help Groups Evaluating Psychotherapy: Does Therapy Work?
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Facing Their Fears
For most of the 100 or so sleepy-eyed people boarding the U.S. Airways shuttle to Boston from New York on a recent hazy Saturday morning, the 35-minute flight could not have been a bigger non-event. But that was not the case for about 20 passengers clustered nervously near the gate. Many clutched puzzle books and bags of sour candy as though they held talismans. Some made nervous jokes, others sobbed quietly. “I have pills with me just in case of an emergency,” said a teenage girl who planned to distract herself on the flight with celebrity magazines. Mariasol Flouty, a 44-year-old software developer from White Plains, held fast to her Sudoku book. “I had plane-crash nightmares,” she confessed. “I woke up very tense.” No one was more terrified than Beth Brenner, a 45-year-old mother of two teenagers from Somers, N.Y. “I was hysterical last night,” she said, “but my son said, ‘You’re going to be O.K.’ ” Ms. Brenner was crying quietly on the