15 Interesting Facts About Therapist + Career & Salary

Interesting facts about therapists:

Introduction

Therapists can be life coaches, social workers, marriage counselors, and psychoanalysts, among other specialties.

Basically, ”therapist” is a broader umbrella term for professionals who are licensed and trained to provide rehabilitation and a variety of treatments for suferrers.

Here Is A List Of The Top 15 Interesting Facts About Therapists:

#1 Activities of a therapist may include:

• helping people to address and understand their inner conflicts;
• carrying out hypno-psychotherapy;
• using verbal interaction to explore emotions, attitudes, and behavior;
• performing therapy sessions in a controlled environment.

#2 The length of therapy depends mainly on the desire of the individual to feel better and the problems being addressed.

#3 Psychotherapy is bound by the rules of confidentiality.

#4 Skills required by a therapist include:

• confidence to explore difficult and painful aspects of a sufferer’s life;
• empathy;
• an understanding of diversity and equality of problems;
• sensitivity;
• an energetic and positive approach;
• a sense of humor;
• self-awareness;
• a belief in people’s inherent capacity to develop and change;
• a non-judgemental attitude and a respect for others;
• an understanding of the importance of confidentiality;
• the capacity to work well and think clearly under pressure;
• common sense;
• the capacity to work well as part of a multidisciplinary team;
• time management skills;
• a capacity to establish rapport with others;
• good verbal skills.

History

#5 Modern psychological therapies trace their history back to the work of Sigmund Freud.

Rather than try to treat mental problems as physical problems, Sigmund Freud chooses to listen to the sufferer and try to work out what was happening from what they said.

#6 Sigmund’s work, alongside apprentices such as Carl Jung, Sandor Ferenczi (a key theorist of the psychoanalytic school), Karl Abraham, Otto Rank, and Alfred Adler, led to the development of psychodynamic therapy and psychoanalysis.

#7 Carl Jung was a psychologist who pioneered the idea of exploring an individual’s interior life to better understand their actions and behaviors.

#8 The terms “extraverted” and “introverted” first appear in Psychological Types, a book which Carl published in 1921. He wrote that extroverts are friendly and accessible characters who are looking outward for their energy, whereas introverts get their energy from their own self-dialogue.

#9 Wilhelm Reich (a member of the 2nd generation of analysts after Freud) began to develop body psychotherapy (a branch of therapy that concentrated on the interactions between the mind and the body) in the 1930s.

#10 In the 1940s, Carl Rogers put the basis of person-centered therapy, which uses a non-authoritative approach.

#11 In 1993, Ivan Goldberg started fielding questions online about the medical treatment of depression. A current excellent website for therapy is BetterHelp.

Responsibilities

#12 Some of the responsibilities of a therapist include:

• changing the sufferer’s treatment plan when needed;
• recording the sufferer’s progress;
• assessing patients through detailed observations, interviews, and conversations;
• educating appropriate coping mechanisms;
• identifying faults or room for improvement, regularly discussing the treatment plan with the client;
• working with the client to develop goals;
• creating effective treatment plans;
• diagnosing the sufferer’s emotional and mental disorders.

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Education Requirements

#13 Education requirements for therapists depend on what type of therapist you want to become. For instance, physical therapists need a master’s degree or a doctorate in physical therapy, occupational therapists require a master’s degree,  recreational therapists need a bachelor’s degree, respiratory therapists require an associate’s degree, and massage therapists must complete a program that combines more than 515 hours of experience and study.

Salary

#14 The salary of a therapist varies greatly.

#15 For instance, a senior psychotherapist can earn at least $75,000 per year, while a psychotherapist in the early stage of his career can earn around $35,000 per year.

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References

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6315274/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4764785/