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Eclectic psychotherapy is a form of psychotherapy in which the clinician uses more than one theoretical approach, or multiple sets of techniques, to help with clients' needs. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The use of different therapeutic approaches will be based on the effectiveness in resolving the patient's problems, rather than the theory behind each therapy.
Brief psychotherapy (also brief therapy, planned short-term therapy) [1] is an umbrella term for a variety of approaches to short-term, solution-oriented psychotherapy. Overview [ edit ]
Egan's eclectic model was first proposed as a humanistic framework but it increasingly adopted a more action-oriented form of therapy later on. [1] Egan likened the model to the browser in the sense that, like a web browser, it can be used to mine, organize, and evaluate concepts and techniques that work for clients regardless of their background. [7]
In Integrative and Eclectic Counselling and Psychotherapy, [27] the authors make clear the distinction between integrative and eclectic psychotherapy approaches: "Integration suggests that the elements are part of one combined approach to theory and practice, as opposed to eclecticism which draws ad hoc from several approaches in the approach ...
The term psychotherapy is derived from Ancient Greek psyche (ψυχή meaning "breath; spirit; soul") and therapeia (θεραπεία "healing; medical treatment"). The Oxford English Dictionary defines it as "The treatment of disorders of the mind or personality by psychological means...", however, in earlier use, it denoted the treatment of disease through hypnotic suggestion.
Brief eclectic psychotherapy (BEP) for PTSD was developed by Berthold Gersons and Ingrid Carlier in 1994. [34] It emphasizes the psychodynamic perspective of shame and guilt in addition to the principles of cognitive-behavioral therapy.
Eastern Orthodox psychotherapy; Eclectic psychotherapy; Ecological counseling; Ego-state therapy; Emotionally focused therapy (EFT) Emotional Freedom Techniques, a pseudoscientific therapy; Encounter groups; Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) Existential therapy; Exposure and response prevention; Exposure therapy; Expressive ...
Behaviorism used techniques based on theories of operant conditioning, classical conditioning and social learning theory. Major contributors included Joseph Wolpe, Hans Eysenck, and B.F. Skinner. Because behaviorism denied or ignored internal mental activity, this period represents a general slowing of advancement within the field of ...