Encyclopedia of Psychotherapy
Michel Hersen, William H. Sledge
Language: English
Pages: 1770
ISBN: 0123430127
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
Psychotherapy is the dialogue between patient and therapist in the diagnosis and treatment of behavioral, crisis, and mental disorders. Psychoanalysis as formulated by Sigmund Freud is the first modern form of psychotherapy and this approach has given rise to several score of psychodynamic therapies.
In more recent times behavioral, cognitive, existential, humanistic, and short-term therapies have been put into practice, each with a particular focus and each giving rise to variations in structure and content of treatment as well as therapeutic outcomes. These therapy approaches relate the patient/therapist dialogue to different aspects of the therapeutic process. For instance, behavior therapies focus on the patient's conduct and cognitive therapies treat the client's thought processes.
The Encyclopedia covers the major psychotherapies currently in practice as well as the classical approaches that laid the foundation for the various contemporary treatment approaches. In addition, the Encyclopedia identifies the scientific studies conducted on the efficacy of the therapies and review the theoretical basis of each therapy.
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unrealistic expectations or beliefs), and interpersonal problem-solving training (helping clients to effectively handle challenging situations that arise in social situations such as reactions of anger that get in the way of maintaining friendships). Written material may be used to provide instructions and to clarify differences among aggressive, assertive, and passive behaviors in a situation. For example if you believe you have been treated unfairly by a professor, you could appropriately speak
The client’s self-report of sexual arousal using the 10point Likert scale (0 = not at all aroused, 9 = extremely aroused) for each category of stimulus across the four assessments, yields an indication of an individual’s subjective experience of arousal, which is not always perfectly related to his physiological responding. Once again, it was found that FAD stimuli elicited the greatest levels of arousal, whereas all others dropped off to 0. The client clearly showed clinical progress in both his
physiologic and social therapies were in wide use beginning in the last quarter of the nineteenth century. The beginning of the twentieth century saw the growth of psychological treatment led by Freud and his followers. Psychoanalysis focused on the psychological domain of the individual and on how it attributed to both illness and health. The overriding emphasis was on psychoanalysis as a general theory that both explained and could treat all mental illnesses. Psychoanalysis as a monotherapy
APPLICATIONS AND EXCLUSIONS The strategies of Classical Adlerian psychotherapy are similar in individual, couple, family, and child psychotherapy. The central dynamic is the encouragement of each individual to develop his or her capacities so as to reduce the inferiority feeling, to feel more equal with others, to become more cooperative, and to contribute to the improvement of all relationships for mutual benefit. In order to accomplish this, the style of life of each person usually needs to be
others’ perspectives into account, and his psychiatrist reported that he was less impatient, less instantly demanding, and better able to listen and to discuss issues in a constructive manner. His gains in anger control led to a recommendation for transfer to his local hospital, and staff there reported being impressed with what they felt was a positive change in his presentation. His self-reported improvement in anger control and progress through the provocation hierarchy in treatment sessions
