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Multimodal therapy (MMT) is an approach to psychotherapy devised by psychologist Arnold Lazarus, who originated the term behavior therapy in psychotherapy. It is based on the idea that humans are biological beings that think, feel, act, sense, imagine, and interact—and that psychological treatment should address each of these modalities.
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.
The two terms are sometimes synonymous, but palliative care often specifically refers to serious illness and end-of-life care. Therapy may be categorized as having curative intent (when it is possible to eliminate the disease) or palliative intent (when eliminating the disease is impossible and the focus shifts to minimizing the distress that ...
This is an alphabetical list of psychotherapies.. This list contains some approaches that may not call themselves a psychotherapy but have a similar aim of improving mental health and well-being through talk and other means of communication.
Academic advising; Art therapy/dance therapy/drama therapy/music therapy; Brief psychotherapy; Career counseling; Christian counseling; Co-counseling; Connectionism; Consultant (medicine)
Therapeutic community is a participative, group-based approach to long-term mental illness, personality disorders and drug addiction.The approach was usually residential, with the clients and therapists living together, but increasingly residential units have been superseded by day units.
Multimodal cancer therapy, often referred to simply as multimodal therapy or multimodal cancer care, is an approach for treatment of cancer that combines radiation and chemotherapy [1] or other multiple therapeutic modalities.
Modality (therapy), a method of therapeutic approach; Modality (diagnosis), a method of diagnosis; Modality (medical imaging), acquiring structural or functional images of the body; Stimulus modality, a type of physical phenomenon or stimulus that one can sense, such as temperature and sound; Modality Partnership, a British primary care provider