METHODS OF THERAPY

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Purpose of Therapy

Verbal interaction Insights to a problem Trusting relationship Life coach Placebo effect therapist or the-rapist?

INDIVIDUAL

GROUP

FIVE APPROACHES

Psychoanalytic Cognitive Behaviorist/Learning Humanistic Biological

Psychoanalytic

Insight to the unconscious Dream analysis Free association* Transference

Cognitive Inner messages, self-defeating thoughts Illogical thinking, Faulty assumptions Self problem-solving Rational-emotive thinking RET Cognitive-Behavioral CBT via Role-play or Modelingsample* Arbitrary inference Selective abstraction Overgeneralization Catastrophizing

Behavior/Learning

Conditioned behaviors Behavior modification Counterconditioning

Operant conditioning Token economy Successive approximations example*

Humanistic

Reach full potential as unique person

Person-centered “client” Non-directive Active listening Unconditional positive regardsample*

Biological

Drug therapy* Antidepressant, lithium, antipsychotic

Electro-convulsive Psychosurgery Lobotomy*