Interpersonal psychotherapy

1. Psychoanalysis and its variants: • Psychoanalysis is recognizable through the silence or very limited comments on the part of the therapist; it is mainly the client talking. The talking can also be referred to as free expression (Feltham, 1995) • The psychoanalyst allows the client sufficient time and space for self-discovery, so as to find answer to his or her problems, within himself/herself. • One of the major issues throughout all psychoanalysis therapies and its variants is transference.…

The Trauma Adaptive Recovery Group Education and Therapy (TARGET) model is a manualized group, family, and one on one psychotherapy that engages clients in “a process of therapeutic self-reflection and change that addresses PTSD and SUD simultaneously” (Ford and Russo, 2006, p. 353). TARGET consists of three central components that focus on the patient’s better understanding…

Mental distress lies at the heart of counselling, psychotherapy and counselling psychology. Psychopathology derives from two Greek words psych meaning soul and pathos which means suffering. In summary psychopathology is the origin of mental disorder it is the development and the symptoms associated to mental disorders. The environment has placed mankind under the governance of two self-determining masters, pain, and pleasure. It is for them alone to point out what we ought to do, as well as to…

Abstract Humanistic approach is the power of empathetic understanding of a client. Perspectives from many researchers have formed a cluster of thoughts. Maslow hierarchical theory is the motivation model of achieving self-actualisation. According to studies, research had been done to analysis whether older adults are more prominent towards attainment of self-actualisation. Besides that, styles of parenting affect the growth of a college going adolescence. Moreover, client-centered therapy is…

Two psychotherapy styles described in the text are exposure therapy, which falls under the category of Behavior/Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy and interpersonal psychotherapy (IPT), which falls under the category of Psychodynamic Therapy. According to the text, the general idea of exposure therapy is to flood the client with stimuli that previously caused them fear/anxiety or avoidance. Interpersonal psychotherapy is considered an empirical psychoanalytic alternative to other techniques of…

Theoretical Framework My theoretical orientation to clinical mental health counseling is cognitive-behavioral therapy, person-centered counseling, and humanistic approach theory. I am drawn to cognitive-behavioral therapy because it is a goal-oriented psychotherapy method that practices active participation and problem-solving. Its purpose is to alter guides of reasoning or behavior that are following client's challenges. Cognitive-behavioral is based on an idea that one beliefs and the way one…

feelings that hinder growth (Association for Advanced Training in the Behavioral Sciences, 2018). With this model the focus is on emotion, communication, and growth. Humans have the innate drive to make themselves happy and fulfilled (Theories of psychotherapy, 2018). People naturally want to grow (Gehart, 2014). Assess family history and homeostasis stage, focus on growth and teach effective communication, restructure the family and provide closure (Association for Advanced Training in the…

San Fernando Valley Community Mental Health Center, Inc. http://www.movinglivesforward.org 1. The type of prevention is: Secondary Prevention a. This agency provides secondary prevention to its cliental because it primarily focuses on a high-risk population: people with serious emotional disorders, severe and persistent mental illness. 2. The main functions of this agency are to: ease clients into everyday life by helping them reach their highest potential, offer individualized and…

The transference- countertransference field of a therapeutic relationship is a place where dissociative and traumatic interpersonal scenarios from past relationships can be reenacted and possibly resolved as long as the therapist is conscious of projective identification phenomena constellated between himself and his client (Davies & Dea, 1994). This was clearly not so for…

The rise of video-game misuse has increased over the last two decades because of rapidly changing technology, development of personal gaming/computer systems, and the accessibility to the internet on multiple devices. Currently, gaming and/or internet use disorder is not listed in the DSM-5 however the appendix states that there is need for further research to study this increasing trend of technology misuse(citation?). The lack of empirical research and a valid universal assessment for gaming…