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Rehm et al. (1979) replicated the procedures used in Fuchs and Rehm's (1977) study and evaluated the effects of self-control therapy against a behavioral assertion skills training program. Researchers found self-control therapy effective for moderately depressed women, and therefore successfully replicated the findings from Fuchs and Rehm (1977).
Evidence-based, trauma-focused psychotherapy is the first-line treatment for PTSD. [1] [2] [3] Psychotherapy is defined as a treatment where a therapist and patient build a therapeutic relationship and focus on the patient's thoughts, attitudes, affect, behavior, and social development to lessen the patient's psychopathologies and functional impairment.
Therapeutic assessment is a psychological assessment procedure which aims to help people gain insight and apply this new insight to problems in their life. [1] This paradigm is contrasted with the traditional, information-gathering model of psychological assessment, the main goal of which is to accurately diagnose, plan treatments, and evaluate treatment effectiveness.
The use of play therapy is often rooted in psychodynamic theory, but other approaches also exist. In addition to therapy for the child, sometimes instead of it, children may benefit if their parents work with a therapist, take parenting classes, attend grief counseling, or take other action to resolve stressful situations that affect the child.
Use of free association as a major method for exploration of internal conflicts and problems; Focusing on interpretations of transference, defense mechanisms, and current symptoms and the working through of these present problems; Trust in insight as critically important for success in therapy.
Occupational therapy (OT) is a healthcare profession that involves the use of assessment, intervention, consultation, and coaching to develop, recover, or maintain meaningful occupations of individuals, groups, or communities. The field of OT consists of health care practitioners trained and educated to support mental health and physical ...
For example, many therapy decisions are made on the basis of what a clinician expects will help a patient make therapeutic gains. Once observations have been collected (e.g., psychological testing results, diagnostic impressions, clinical history, X-ray , etc.), there are two mutually exclusive ways to combine those sources of information to ...
Writing therapy; relieving tension and emotion, establishing self-control and understanding the situation after words are transmitted on paper. Writing therapy [1] [2] is a form of expressive therapy that uses the act of writing and processing the written word in clinical interventions for healing and personal growth. [3]