Interpersonal psychotherapy

modality or the counselor-patient relationship, in psychotherapy has always been questioned. A meta-analysis by Bowers and Clum (1988) found that therapy with a focus on both the therapeutic relationship and treatment modality had a combined effect size of .76, while therapy with treatment modality focus only had an effect size of .55. Thus, empirical data warrants that both the technique and the relationship weigh in the effectiveness of psychotherapy, with the common factors of therapy, the…

Psychotherapy is a psychological intervention designed to help people struggling with emotional, behavioral, and/or interpersonal problems. There are over 500 brands of psychotherapy available today. The professionals that practice psychotherapy can range from social workers to clinical psychologists, and while many have advanced degrees, there is no evidence to support a difference in success based on level of education. Along with the variety of psychotherapists, the ways to approach…

Transference Focused Therapy Another form of treatment that is commonly used for borderline personality disorder is transference focused psychotherapy. TFP is a modified psychodynamic psychotherapy (a form of depth psychology of which the primary focus is to reveal the client’s unconscious, deep-rooted feelings in order to make it possible to resolve them). TFP combines methods of standard psychoanalytic technique (such as attention to unconscious processes, focusing on transference, and…

experienced by a member. Catharsis is considered a part of an interpersonal process that is more helpful during the latter part of the group process as supportive bonds are formed (Yalom, 2005). This value is important in adolescent groups as it validates the learning experience whilst working with peers. Interpersonal learning is described as the task of a therapist to help clients learn “how to develop distortion-free, gratifying interpersonal relationships” (Yalom, 2005, p. 47). Through…

therapy (CBT) is better than other forms of psychotherapy. Therefore, there was a comparison in the effectiveness of CBT versus different types of psychotherapy to examine the relationship between different outcomes and the specific variables used in the studies. The quantitative review consisted on the search of journal articles from databases such as MEDLINE and PsycINFO. All the articles searched were studies about CBT vs. another form of psychotherapy, and then they were selected based on…

Are You in the Mood? Therapist Affect and Psychotherapy Process Literature Review: Chui, Hill, Kline, Kuo, and Mohr (2016) presented a significant research for the readers since psychotherapy research is one the main research areas in counseling psychology. In addition, since therapist’s affect in psychotherapy process is a less researched are make the article more appealing to the readers. Researchers first sought to take description of therapist-reported state affect at pre-session,…

There are several approaches to psychotherapy — including cognitive-behavioral, interpersonal and other kinds of talk therapy — that help individuals work through their problems (International).” Psychotherapy’s main point is to form a dialogue between the therapist and the client, providing a supportive individual…

Eugene T. Gendlin born in1926 in Vienna. His family emigrated to the United States to escape the Nazis when he was a child. During the 1950s, He studied under Carl Rogers, the founder of client-centered therapy. Gendlin received his Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Chicago, where he became an Associate Professor. Gendlin believes the discovery of meaning is not in the conscious, or, the unconscious as suggested by Freud, not even the congruence between feeling, concept, and expression…

patient suffering from depression is crucial. Beidal, Bulik, & Stanley, 2014 state that a combination of therapies and antidepressants is the most common today and typically effect for most people (p.224). Therapies like cognitive-behavioral and interpersonal therapy are the most common forms of therapy used when treating depression. Cognitive-behavioral therapy focuses on identifying and changing patterns of thought (Beidel, Bulik, & Stanley, 2014, p. 224). This form of therapy is based on the…

The joys of a new baby are numerous for couples, it’s an addition to your family, a new person to love; but a new child also means new responsibilities, a new found source of stress and in some cases depression for the new moms. The particular type of depression I’m referring to is known as postpartum depression. When moms give birth to their babies, their body limits the release of certain hormones, and can cause the new moms to feel sluggish, tired and even depressed. The depression is common…