| What Is Psychotherapy? | ||||
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Is a process that helps you look closely at your thoughts and feelings
as they relate to your actions and relationships. Professional
clinicians can help you find out where problems exists, what you’ll
need to do to become happier, and then help you make those changes. Read more... |
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| Behavior Therapy | ||||
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Focuses
on what you do. This is an excellent treatment choice for recurrent
behavior problems such as anxiety disorders, drug, alcohol, eating
disorders and other substance abuse disorders, phobias, and
obsessive-compulsive disorders.
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| Cognitive Therapy | ||||
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Focuses
on identifying and changing negative thinking patterns. Since
thoughts and feelings are believed to be linked together, the way a
person thinks can affect the way a person feels.
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| Cognitive-Behavior Therapy | ||||
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Is a type of
therapy that combines ideas from the cognitive and behavioral
modalities. Cognitive-behaviorists believe that thinking,
questioning and then taking actions will lead to the changes needed for
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| Family Therapy | ||||
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Is
a special type of therapy because it focuses on changes and
relationships within the family. It
is based upon a systems point of view.
This means that whatever goes on in one
part of
the system will directly
effect
every other part of the system.
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| Humanistic Psychology | ||||
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Evolved in the 1960s in reaction to psychodynamic psychology and
behaviorism. Humanists though that the psychodynamic view of
understanding human behavior was pessimistic because it sees the selfish
pursuit of pleasure as the root of all human behavior.
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| Interpersonal Therapy (IPT) | ||||
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Is used for the treatment of depression. IPT research has shown that combined with medication it is
superior to no active psychology treatment or to medication alone.
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| Marital Therapy | ||||
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Focuses
on relationship problems between two people. Relationship problems can
stem from individual issues that each person brings to the marriage
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| Psychoanalysis | ||||
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Is the oldest
formal therapeutic treatment developed by Dr. Sigmund Freud in the early
twentieth century. In this treatment, the therapist helps the
patient become more aware of unconscious influences stemming from
childhood experiences.
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