Worksheets6. Psychotherapy
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Meaning breath, spirit, or soul.
psychē
therapeia or therapeuein
To nurse or cure.
psychē
therapeia or therapeuein
It is defined as
“the relief of distress or disability in one person by another, using an approach based on a particular theory or paradigm, and that the agent performing the therapy has had some form of training in delivering this.”
Psychotherapy
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Psychotherapy is a form of treatment for problems of an emotional nature in which a trained person deliberately establishes a professional relationship with a patient with the objective of
removing,
modifying existing symptoms,
or mediating disturbed patterns of behavior.
1. Insight
2. Self-Awareness
3. Self-Acceptance
4. Self-Actualization
5. Problem Solving
6. Enlightenment
7. Psychological Education
8. Acquisition of Social Skills
9. Cognitive Change
10. Behavioral Change
Aims of Psychotherapy
Don’ts of Psychotherapy
Do’s of Psychotherapy
•Do not argue with, minimize, or challenge the client.
•Do not praise the client or give them false reassurances.
•Do not make false promises.
•Do not interpret the client or speculate on the dynamics of their problem.
•Don’t interrupt - you are supposed to be listening and seeing it from the client’s point of view.
•Don’t ask too many questions at once or multiple-choice questions - the client will probably not remember what you said and end up more confused.
•Don’t jump into silences - they can be helpful and means that the client is thinking.
Aims of Psychotherapy
Don’ts of Psychotherapy
Do’s of Psychotherapy
•Non-verbal prompts.
•Eye contact - including observation of body language.
•Affirmative head nodding.
•Appropriate facial expression.
•Silence - usually feels a lot longer to you than the client.
•Body posture - for example, lean slightly forward, uncross arms, keep comfortable, and sit at the same level as the client.
•Remove barriers.
•Maintain privacy - door firmly shut, telephone out of hearing.
•Consideration - for example, box of tissues offered.
•Touch – appropriate; in accordance with the norms.
•Let the client be - for example, let them cry, even let them get up and move around for a minute if it will help to relax them.
Aims of Psychotherapy
Don’ts of Psychotherapy
Do’s of Psychotherapy
Involves giving unconditional respect to the client.
Unconditional Positive Regard:
Empathic Understanding:
Congruence:
It is the ability to accurately perceive others’ feelings and communicate this understanding to them effectively. It is different from sympathy which implies feeling sorry for the person.
Unconditional Positive Regard:
Empathic Understanding:
Congruence:
It involves being genuine, non-defensive, and open.
Unconditional Positive Regard:
Empathic Understanding:
Congruence:
Therapeutic Relationship/Alliance
Of the many common factors for psychotherapy outcome that have been proposed, the leading candidate is a strong relationship between therapist and client (Beitman & Manring, 2009; Lebow, 2006; Prochaska & Norcross, 2010).
This relationship goes by many names: therapeutic relationship, therapeutic alliance, working alliance.
In fact, the word “alliance” is perhaps the most illustrative of the nature of this relationship — a coalition, a partnership between two allies working in a trusting relationship toward a mutual goal.
Objectives:
•Strengthening of existing coping skills.
•Elaboration of new and better mechanisms to maintain control.
Supportive Therapy
Re-educative Therapy
Reconstructive Therapy
Approaches:
•Guidance.
•Environmental manipulation.
•Reassurance.
•Emotional catharsis.
•Relaxation.
•Teaching new coping skills.
•Interpersonal group therapy.
Supportive Therapy
Re-educative Therapy
Reconstructive Therapy
Objectives:
Insight into more conscious conflicts with deliberate efforts at readjustment.
Supportive Therapy
Re-educative Therapy
Reconstructive Therapy
Approaches:
1. Reconditioning.
2. Re-educative groups.
3. CBT.
Supportive Therapy
Re-educative Therapy
Reconstructive Therapy
Objectives:
Insight into unconscious conflicts, with efforts to achieve extensive alterations of character structure. Expansion of personality growth.
Supportive Therapy
Re-educative Therapy
Reconstructive Therapy
Approaches:
1. Freudian and Neo-Freudian Psychoanalysis.
2. Play Therapy.
Supportive Therapy
Re-educative Therapy
Reconstructive Therapy
•Psychoanalysis
•Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
•Gestalt Therapy
•Transactional Analysis
•Person-Centered Therapy
•Family Therapy
•Couples Therapy
•Play Therapy
•Music Therapy
•Art Therapy
•Movement Therapy
•Hypnotherapy
COMMON PSYCHOTHERAPIES
STAGES OF PSYCHOTHERAPY
1. OPENING: Initial interview, diagnostic interview including an understanding of the presenting complaint, history taking, and mental status examination.
2. MIDDLE: The phase of detailed exploration of the issue.
3. TERMINATION: Ending phase.
COMMON PSYCHOTHERAPIES
STAGES OF PSYCHOTHERAPY
