Psychotherapy

Beneficial theorectical approaches for the Asian American population include a therapeutic approach from the East originating in Japan called Morita therapy. Morita therapy has strong roots in East Asian philosophies, human-nature, and harmony. It purpose is to help the client in focused behavior practices, where the client learns to dismantle their conflicting thoughts and anxiety through a natural process and it increases their tolerance levels (Chen, 2010). The use of an East Asian 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…

striving for identity, relationships to others, anxiety as a condition of living, and awareness of death. While it is similar to Gestalt therapy and has multiple contributors sharing similar perspectives, Irvin Yalom was a major figure in group psychotherapy and his research and contributions to Existential psychology and it’s applications in therapy was was highly signifiant and is still used in today’s practices. Irvin D. Yalom was born…

Through the development and emergence of cognitive behavioral therapy as—disputably—the most effective and empirically validated psychotherapy, CBT has been discovered to have many strengths as well as some challenges (Spiegler, 2010). Undoubtedly, CBT has had plenty of success in treating a host of different psychological disorders as well as success in treating people from a variety of diverse backgrounds. CBT has proven to be not just an effective means of treating psychological disorder but…

The popularity of CBT is indicated by the number of research articles devoted to CBT. Hoffmann and associates (2012) identified 269 meta-analytic studies and out of that number chose 106 meta-analyses examining CBT for the following problems: substance use disorder, schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders, depression and dysthymia, bipolar disorder, anxiety disorders, somatoform disorders, eating disorders, insomnia, personality disorders, anger and aggression, criminal behaviors, general…

trials have been conducted to compare CBT and psychodynamic therapy for depression. The first was the Treatment of Depression Collaborative Research Project (TDCRP) conducted in the 1980s. This study compared the efficacy of CBT, interpersonal psychotherapy, and pharmacotherapy for depression. Outcomes for CBT and interpersonal therapy were generally equivalent (Elkin et al., 1989), although CBT did not fare as well as IPT or antidepressant medication among the more severely depressed patients…

4. Existential Therapy Unlike Adlerian Therapy, or Psychoanalysis, Existentialism was not founded by any person or group. Instead, the concept is a cornucopia of different ideas which contribute to a universal theory of existence (Corey, 2013, p. 140). World War II devastated Europe and left those that participated, or that were victims of the war, struggling with isolation and meaninglessness. The search for understanding and freedom within the confines of the Nazi oppression lead…

History of Dialectical Behavior Therapy Dialectical Behavior Therapy, also know as DBT is a type of psychotherapy that deals with the cognitive and behavioral parts of the mind. This type of therapy came about back in the late 1980s by a woman named Marsha M. Linehan. She created this type of therapy to help her deal with her own disorder, which was borderline personality disorder. The main reason of DBT is to help people with any kind of mental health disorders, not just borderline…

Throughout psychotherapy, there are three different forms which are known as the cognitive, humanistic, and behavioral forms. These psychotherapy theories help psychologists guide them through the process of understanding their clients and their problems; therefore, they help develop some type of solution. The first method or approach had many information which was contributed by Ivan Pavlov which is known as the behavioral form. This method focused on developing both abnormal and normal…

My personal interest in psychology include suicide prevention, mental illness, mindfulness and psychotherapy. If I had a job in clinical psychology, my interest would probably be satisfied. The question is whether I want to work with a specific population and providing a specific kind of help. Lisa works with college students who are struggling and I…