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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

  1. 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