nature and process of psychotherapy

types of therapies for helping people

objective
use of psychological forms of intervention
Rehabilitation

The special relationship between the client helping the patient overcome her/his debilitating condition
and the therapist
severity of the disorder
neither a passing acquaintance, nor a
depend factor degree of distress faced by others
permanent and lasting relationship
the availability of time, effort and money
the client and the therapist, enter into a partnership
which aims at helping the client overcome contractual nature corrective and helping in nature
her/his problems
limited duration of the therapy IPR between Therapist and client
until the client becomes able to deal with her/his problems voluntary relationship
take control of her/ his life between the one seeking treatment and who treat
trusting and confiding relationship changing the
high level of trust enables the client to unburden Psychoth maladaptive behaviours
herself/himself to the therapist components erapy helping the client to adapt better to her/his
confide her/his psychological and personal Therapeutic environment
problems to the latter therapeutic alliance Relationship Inadequate marital,
encourages this by being accepting, occupational and social adjustment
empathic, genuine and warm to the client client to solve the
The therapist conveys by her/his words psychological problems
purpose
and behaviours that s/he is not judging the client conducive for building
freely discussed
continue to show the ame positive feelings towards the client Nature and the trust of the client
Therapeutic Relationship THERAPEUTIC
even if the client is rude or confides all the
‘wrong’ things that s/he may have done or thought about APPROACHES Process of systematic application
different theories of therapy
of principles
therapist has for the client unconditional Psychotherapy expert supervision can practice psychotherapy
empathy for the client positive regard untrained person may unintentionally cause more harm
different from sympathy characteristics the therapeutic situation involves a therapist and a client who
intellectual understanding seeks and receives help for her/his emotional problems
of another person’s situation the therapist and the client — results in confidential,
one is able to understand the plight of another person, and feel like the other person. Empathy the consolidation/formation of the interpersonal, and
understanding things from the other person’s perspective, i.e. therapeutic relationship dynamic relationship
putting oneself in the other person’s shoes
Reinforcing client’s resolve for betterment.
the therapeutic relationship and transforms it into a healing relationship
Lessening emotional pressure
compassion and pity towards the suffering of another but is not able to feel
like the other person sympathy Unfolding the potential for positive growth
requires that the therapist must keep strict Modifying habits
confidentiality of the experiences, events, Changing thinking patterns
feelings or thoughts disclosed by the client psychotherapies Goal Increasing self-awareness
must not exploit the trust and the confidence of the client in anyway Improving interpersonal relations and communication
professional relationship, Facilitating decision-making
and must remain so. Becoming aware of one’s choices in life
Relating to one’s social environment in a more creative
and self-aware manner.

12 May 2020