[PSYCHOTHERAPY, THE PRECIOUS GIRL IN THE HEALTH FIELD: ALWAYS USEFUL AND NEVER HARMFUL?].
The present paper reviews some psychotherapy's features through the light of it's alleged supposedly invariant usefulness and incapacity to harm consultants. Differences between general health field and mental health field are discussed with the assis- tance of the concepts of necessity, supply and demand, in order to understand psychotherapeutic supply dynamics. Its use with non-diagnosed clients and the explicit decission to give assistance to people ailed with discomfort are discussed based on international studies on prevalence and efficacy of psychotherapy. Its harmfulness, underreporting by psychotherapists and specific proposals to reduce it are reviewed. Some considerations regarding psychotherapy as part of the health field are discussed.
The present study investigates the learners’ mental models of plate boundaries and the ontological categories according to their mental models. 116 Korean high school students were asked to draw the 3 types of plate boundaries described in the theory of plate tectonics and to respond the written test with ontological questions. In order to reveal the mental models of students, the result of drawings and interviews was analyzed quantitatively and qualitatively. The findings revealed that the mental models of plate boundaries were classified as one of the following: 'naive model', 'unstable model', 'causal model', and 'conceptual model'. The learners who were categorized as the naive mental type showed the highest proportion in the Matter ontological category. On the other hand, the learners who were categorized as the causal mental type did not appear in the Matter category, they use more Event and Constraint Based Interaction categories.