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the authors cast a critical eye on the reality of commonly used scientific and pseudoscientific practices in social work today

An entire chapter devoted to diagnostic schemas for children ages 0--5

Topics include the physician-patient relationship

The Human Elements of Psychotherapy Joyce Butler and examining such issues asThe dominant paradigm in psychotherapy is the medical model, which views therapy as a clinical treatment rather than a healing interpersonal connection. Words like patient, diagnosis, symptoms, treatment, and modalities reflect this medically oriented view of therapy. In this book, David Elkins cogently argues that while the medical model remains widely accepted, science shows it to be inappropriate. A wealth of evidence suggests that healing occurs