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Therapies

Therapies. Psychotherapy. A systematic interaction between a therapist and a client that brings psychological principles to bear on a client’s thoughts, feelings, or behavior to help the client overcome abnormal behavior (or to adjust to problems in living ). Different Types of Therapists.

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Therapies

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  1. Therapies

  2. Psychotherapy • A systematic interaction between a therapist and a client that brings psychological principles to bear on a client’s thoughts, feelings, or behavior to help the client overcome abnormal behavior (or to adjust to problems in living)

  3. Different Types of Therapists • Psychologist • Counselor • Psychiatrist • Psychiatric Social Worker • Psychoanalyst

  4. Who Goes to Therapy? • People with psychological disorders • People who want to learn about themselves • People with regular problems (weight loss, depression, shyness)

  5. Insight Therapies • Traditional Psychoanalysis • Client Centered Therapy • Cognitive Therapies • Group therapies • Involves verbal interactions intended to enhance a client’s self knowledge and thus promote healthful changes in personality and behavior.

  6. Psychoanalysis Insight therapy that emphasizes the recovery of unconscious conflicts, motives, and defenses though techniques such as free association, dream analysis, and transference. *free association *dream analysis *transference (countertransference)

  7. 1-2x weekly “face to face” Problem resolution Active & directive Supportive, educational, and less intense 4-5x weekly “couch therapy” Reconstruct character Free association, transference, and resistance Modern vs. Traditional Psychoanalysis

  8. Client Centered Therapy • Carl Rogers’ insight thereapy that emphasizes providing a supportive meotional climate for clients who play a major role in determining the pace and direction of the therapy. • Unconditional positive regard • Empathic understanding • Genuineness • Congruence

  9. Cognitive Therapies • Forms of Therapy that focus on how clients’ cognitions lead to distress and may be modified to relieve distress. Improve a person’s well being by changing negative thoughts and maladaptive beliefs • Albert Ellis: Rational Emotive therapy • Aaron Beck: Cognitive Therapy • Problem Solving Training

  10. Advantages of Group Therapies • Cheaper • Able to hear experiences of others • Group support • Similarity • Improvement happens • Social skills

  11. Behavior Therapies • Behavior is a product of learning and what is learned can be unlearned. • Fear Reduction Methods • Aversive conditioning • Operant Conditioning • token economies • biofeedback

  12. Biomedical Therapies • Drug Therapy Anti-anxiety anti-psychotic antidepressants lithium • Electroconvulsive Therapies • Psychosurgery

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