psychological treatment

Counseling for minds

Psychological treatment is therapy aimed at mental, emotional, or behavioral problems through non-medical means—talk therapy, cognitive techniques, behavioral interventions.

The term appears in clinical and insurance contexts as a broad category: The study compared psychological treatment with medication.

Distinguished from psychiatric treatment, which typically involves drugs.

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treatment modality

psychological treatmentpharmacotherapy

Treatment using pharmaceutical agents

medication · drug therapy · medical treatment · surgical intervention · electroconvulsive therapy

intervention vs. neglect

psychological treatmentneglect

Failure to provide care

untreated illness · abandonment · untreated · warehousing · mistreatment

evidence-based vs. pseudoscientific approaches

psychological treatmentquackery

Fraudulent medical practice

faith healing · conversion therapy · snake oil · charlatanism · folk remedies

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