The structure of practical psychology includes:
- its main approaches: natural science and humanitarian approach. See →
- related paradigms — behavioral and phenomenological, See →
- one or another orientation (orientation) — ethical or applied orientation, business orientation or orientation to personal life and family. See →
- directions associated with a certain vision of human nature — behavioral, educational, psychoanalytic, psychodynamic, religious, transpersonal, humanistic, realistic. See →
- areas of activity — psychotherapy, psychodiagnostics, psychocorrection, education, training, development (see →)
- the main approaches-brands, subdivided into currents and schools — the behavioral approach, the humanistic approach, the gestalt approach, the NLP approach, the Sinton approach. See →
- schools, as a personification of the direction or method of psychotherapy (there is a founder of the theory, there is its methodology, concept and training programs, a system for verifying results, research on effectiveness, etc.). For example, the psychoanalysis of 3. Freud, the analytical psychodrama of D. L. Moreno, the gestalt therapy of F. Perls, the pathogenetic psychotherapy of neuroses of V. N. Myasishchev.
- Techniques are specific techniques within the framework of the psychotechnical, psychotherapeutic process, determined by the parameters of the direction or method. See Psychotechnics
Explanation
Colleagues, I want to consult. There is a feeling that we are using the word “approach” incorrectly, unproductively and confusing ourselves. The word is really very convenient, and in fact we began to call it everything, completely different and multi-level things. What happens? Listen: the Gestalt approach in the psychotherapeutic approach refers to the humanistic approach within the framework of the phenomenological approach … ”- It seems that this is an unfortunate use of words, especially since there are many other exact words that can be used to fix approaches of different levels. That is why the above working dictionary was proposed …