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psychotherapy
Interventions aimed at changing basic mental functions in an individual or organizational or transactional patterns in families.
Classification:
1) Behavioral psychotherapy:
- goals
- increase frequency of positive experiences & reinforcers in a person's daily life
- pinpoint obstacles to reinforcement
- find susbtitute activity & new reinforcers when obstacles cannot be overcome
- increase social involvement
2) Cognitive therapy:
- basic aim is to train patients to identify & change negative,thoughts, misconceptions or irrational thoughts
- coping & social skills training
3) Brief psychodynamic psychotherapy:
- focuses on issues such as:
- unresolved grief
- self integration
- existential concerns
- interpersonal problems
Indications:
- mental disorder
- psychiatric_disease
- psychosis
- dementia
- amnesia
- mood disorder
- anxiety disorder
- PTSD
- obsessive-compulsive disorder
- personality disorder
- somatoform disorder
- factitious disorder
- conduct disorder
- paraphilia
- substance abuse
- eating disorder
- rumination syndrome
- attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder
Notes:
- benefits of psychotherapy
1) affects symptoms such as:
a) depressed mood
b) anhedonia
c) guilt & hopelessness
2) provides skills that helps patients cope with future problems
- a single session of psychotherapy
- moderately effective for anxiety & conduct disorders
- minimally useful for substance use disorders
- ineffective for depression & eating disorders [1]
Specific
acceptance & commitment therapy
aversion therapy
behavioral therapy
cognitive therapy
conversion therapy
exposure therapy
group psychotherapy
interpersonal psychotherapy
interpersonal therapy (IPT)
life review therapy
motivational enhancement therapy (MET)
prolonged exposure therapy
psychodynamic psychotherapy; insight-oriented therapy
psychosocial intervention; psychosocial therapy
supportive psychotherapy
General
medical therapy; therapeutic intervention
References
- Schleider JL, Weisz JR.
Little treatments, promising effects? Meta-analysis of single-
session interventions for youth psychiatric problems.
J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry. 2017 Feb;56(2):107-115
PMID: 28117056
http://www.jaacap.com/article/S0890-8567(16)31933-5/abstract
- Schleider JL, Weisz JR.
Reducing risk for anxiety and depression in adolescents:
Effects of a single-session intervention teaching that
personality can change.
Behav Res Ther. 2016 Dec;87:170-181.
PMID: 27697671