Services offered by Grief Counseling Los Angeles

The psychologist can be a clinician or a neuropsychologist. Another professional with a university education, the psychologist guarantees you qualities of listening and therapy.

Once the psychiatric diagnosis has been made and the management strategy has been established, if the psychiatrist does not do the psychotherapy, he can carry it out. He can also carry out tests allowing him to make a psychological diagnosis. Moreover, if the management requires psychological tests, the clinical psychologist is the most qualified professional to pass them. Psychological tests make it possible to evaluate a specific dimension in a patient: Intellectual Quotient (IQ), projective tests, and more.

The skills of clinical psychologists are many. They can:
•    design psychological interventions individually or in groups
•    Help to model the psychic functioning of a patient. Indeed, psychic functioning can differ enormously between two patients with the same medical diagnosis.
•    conducting psychotherapies
•    carry out preventive actions
•    contribute to research and study activities
•    collect patient needs and requests
•    assess a patient's overall functioning, personality, and cognitive functioning
•    carry out screenings

On the other hand, not being a doctor, the psychologist does not make any medical diagnosis, does not organize the management as a whole, and does not make any prescriptions. Moreover, he is not considered a health professional. Reimbursement for consultations in private is possible from 2022, on medical prescription only at certain Psychotherapy Los Angeles selected by the competent authority designated by decree.

In addition to a general psychotherapeutic competence, he may have a sub-specialization in EMDR, family therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy, interpersonal therapy, or psychoanalysis. It is necessary to distinguish between clinical psychologists, neuropsychologists, and occupational psychologists. It is therefore important to find out the exact title of the psychologist you are interested in. Note that none of them is a health professional.

Grief Counseling Los Angeles is involved in mental health services. Their training is at the Master 2 level. It is above all theoretical because the time spent in practical training with the patient is little expanded in hourly volume. Thus, there is usually no clinical internship before the 3rd year of the bachelor's degree. Some faculties, for example, require 70 hours of observation internship to validate the license. It then takes 300 hours of internship to validate the Master 2 which corresponds to 45 days in full-time equivalent.

The name of the University that trained your psychologist is also essential. Indeed, the training of psychologists is not homogeneous. Thus, the training can be, for example, cognitive, CBT, or analytical orientation. However, not all types of psychotherapeutic theories are equal in terms of effectiveness. The clinical and practical training is much more developed for the psychiatrist than for the psychologist, due to the more theoretical model necessary to validate the title.