Psychotherapy

Psychotherapy Video: Existential-Humanistic Psychotherapy The video Existential-Humanistic Psychotherapy in Action, Part 1& Part 2 are two videos that are collected in the series “Psychotherapy With The Experts 2”. In these two videos, Dr. James F. Bugental conducts two separate psychotherapy sessions with a same client who encounters stressful life events. In order to assist this client in coping with her stress in a positive way, Dr. Bugental applies the existential-humanistic approach…

Talk Therapy or Psychotherapy is defined as a form of psychiatric treatment that involves therapeutic conversations and interactions between a therapist and a child or family. It can help children and families understand and resolve problems, modify behavior, and make positive changes in their lives (ACAA, 2015). This therapy provides an opportunity to be able to investigate the feelings and things that are painful to them. There are also coping skills taught with Psychotherapy. There is more…

Psychotherapy is a psychological intervention designed to help people resolves emotional, behavioral, and interpersonal problems and improve the quality of their lives. There are three major forms of psychotherapy: cognitive, humanistic, and behavioral. In this essay, I will identify the focus of each approach as well as areas of agreement and difference. The cognitive approach includes cognitive-behavioral therapies which are treatments that attempt to replace irrational cognitions and…

Psychotherapy is a field of psychology that is characterized by a diverse range of approaches and techniques. Although most of the therapeutic approaches share the same goals, they have many differences when it comes to the best way to achieve these goals. An integrative approach to counseling therapy was developed by counselors over the years to combine different techniques from different therapeutic systems so that a more complete and efficient treatment can be developed based on the client’s…

Psychotherapy is used to treat mental health conditions and emotional problems by allowing the patient to look deeper into their worries, troublesome habits, or problems. In the UK, psychotherapeutic services involve talking with a trained therapist on a one-on-one basis or in a group, however, other methods, such as movement, drama, music, and art are used. There are different types of psychotherapy offered in the UK and they include psychodynamic psychotherapy, cognitive behavioral therapy,…

Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy (ISTDP) is an aptly named evidence-based intervention that does exactly as it’s name suggests: it is intense, for both the administering therapist and the client; it is generally short-term; it is dynamic in that it ranges from emotion to emotion and setting to setting, changing constantly depending on the client’s present state; and it is an intervention rooted in psychotherapy with classic psychoanalytical elements (Abbass, 2016). ISTDP shares the…

emotions and possibly have a change of making the situation at hand worse. This is because EFT focuses on emotions and neglects other behaviors that may contribute to the problem. As the author Gerald Corey in Theory and Practice of counselling and psychotherapy…

What I learned in this course In this course, I completed reading the text Theory and Practice of Counseling and Psychotherapy written by Gerald Corey, which helped me have a better understanding of different types of theories and how they can benefit or help potential clients I may have. From all the theories studied in this course, there are some theories that I would like to apply that would be beneficial in helping me guide my clients to the right path. Person-centered therapy: In…

The Gestalt school of psychotherapy was founded by Frederick S Perls and Laura, his wife. Fritz was the name that he was usually referred to by the majority of those around him. He was born in Berlin, Germany in 1893 into a middle class family (Gall, S. B., Beins, B., & Feldman, A. J. 1996). His mother (Amelia Rund) grew up in an Orthodox Jewish environment, while his father (Nathan Perls) was Grand Master in the Freemason Lodge. His father was quite reclusive in his habits. (O 'Leary, E. 2013).…

from September 2015 until may 2016. Briefly describe the activities performed by student under your guidance: The internship involved 3-4 hours of weekly supervision and the group comprised 3 students and a supervisor. Psychodynamic psychotherapy was the main focus of the internship but other theoretical frameworks were discussed as well. During the supervision hours, psychodynamic theory and techniques were discussed, but mostly, patients followed by the 3 interns were at the heart of…