Psychotherapy

Level Facilitating Groups In this paper, I will briefly describe two types of groups and address my personal comfort as a facilitator for each. I will describe the differences in my confidence and comfort level facilitating psychoeducational and psychotherapy groups. Following the group descriptions, I will write about potential strategies that can be employed to reduce my discomfort and improve effectiveness as a group leader. Description of Groups Corey, Corey, and Corey (2010) define…

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…

would approach the person in a supportive manner. However, cognitive psychotherapy sees thoughts as brutal while behavioral doesn't. Also, cognitive and behavioral wish to be more specific with treatments while humanistic wants to be more wide-ranging…

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is a treatment of choice working within the limits of NHS for depression. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is another form of psychotherapy treatment which mainly includes several questions such as: How do you think about yourself, the surrounding world in which you live and also, about the other people. Similarly, what could be your steps or actions in order to affect your thoughts and feelings in a positive way? This entire theory of CBT was mainly developed by Dr.…

inferiority feeling which he sees it as a normal condition and a source of striving motivation of all humans in their lifestyle. In Adlerian psychotherapy,…

The counseling technique of coaching comes in various ways and types to the counseling field. Professional coaches provide an ongoing partnership designed to help clients produce fulfilling results in their personal and professional lives. Coaches’ help people improve their performances and enhance the quality of their lives. Coaches are trained to listen, to observe and to customize their approach to individual client needs. They seek to elicit solutions and strategies from the client; they…

Interpersonal psychotherapy (IPT) is a treatment that is very limited on time which stimulates the patient to gain control of what mood they are functioning and it typically lasts about 12-16 weeks (Frank, J.1971). This type of therapy was developed in the 1970’s. Its focus was only on relief of the patients symptoms due to depression which now days, its treated as a medical illness. It has the ability to combine a persons interpersonal events and their moods. IPT structures on the foundation in…

addition, having a room that allows a child to be creative is important to the therapeutic process. Some therapist might have a hard time doing EMDR on children because they have to go from being nondirective to directive. “…integrating EMDR into psychotherapy with children may feel uncomfortable because the therapist is no longer an observer but directs the course of therapy” (Adler-Tapia, 2008, p. 318). The authors are mentioning…

Theories of Psychotherapy Numerous theories have arisen through the field of psychology, each building upon each other or disputing the belief structure of the others. Each therapist seeking to recognize or resolve the suffering of the individual. Suffering is common to all psychology. The practice of mindfulness, from the Buddhist philosophy, is the common key to these theories, if not always acknowledged or fully realized. The concept of mindfulness is intertwined within psychotherapy…

spiritual discipline in this dominate secular field. The important concepts that this writer could benefit from would in confession. The five concepts that this writer will discuss is: psychological effects of confession, confessional nature of psychotherapy, guilt as it relates to confession, confession and scripture, and resisting confession. The Bible clearly states in Psalm 119:26 that what’s good for the soul is confession. In this…