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psychotherapy is treatment involving psychological techniques; it consist of interactions between a trained therapist and someone you can to overcome psychological difficulties where achieve personal growth. The major psychotherapies derive from psychologies psychodynamic, humanistic, behavioral, and Cognitive perspectives. Biomedical therapy treat psychological disorders with medications or procedures act directly on a patient's physiology

Through psychoanalysts, Sigmund Freud tried to get people self insight and relief from their disorders by printing anxiety Laden feelings and thoughts into conscious awareness. Psycho analytic techniques included using free association and interpretation instances of resistance and transference. Differs from it in many ways, including the lack of belief in id, ego, and superago. This contemporary therapy briefer, less expensive, and most focus on helping the client find relief from current symptoms. Psychodynamic therapist helped client understand have a past relationships create themes that may be acted out the present relationship.

transference;resistance; interpretation

both psycho analytic and humanistic therapists are insight therapies they tend to improve functioning increasing clients awareness of motives and defenses. humanistic therapy goals have include helping clients grow in self awareness and self acceptance; promoting personal growth rather then curing illness; helping clients take responsibilities for their own growth; focusing on conscious thoughts father day on conscious motivations; and seeing the present And future as more important than the past. Carl Rogers client centered therapy propose that therapist most important contributions are the functions as a cycle logical mirror active active listening and to provide a growth fostering environments of unconditional positive regard, characterized by genuineness, Acceptance, and empathy.

Behavior therapies are not inside therapies. Their goal is to apply learning principles to modify problem behaviors. Classical conditioning techniques, including exposure therapies ended versus conditioning, Attempt to change behaviors to counterconditioning - evoking new responses to old stimuli to trigger unwanted behavior.

a psychodynamic therapists might be more interesting in helping the child develop insight about underlying problems that have caused the deb wetting response. A behavior therapist would be more likely to agree with Mowrer that the bed wetting symptoms is the problem, and that counterconditioning the unwanted behavior would indeed bring emotonal relief

Therapy based on opera conditioning principles use behavior modification techniques to change unwanted behaviors to positively reinforce desired behaviors and ignoring or punished undesirable behaviors. Critics maintain that one techniques such as those used in token economy's may produce behavior changes that disappear when rewards end, and two deciding which behaviors should change is authoritarian and unethical. proponents Arcata treatment with positive rewards is more humane them punishing people or institutionalizing then for undesirable behaviors.

insight therapies are psychodynamic and humanitic therapies- seek to relieve problems by providing an understanding of their origins. Behavior therapies assume the problem behavior is the problem and treat it directly, paying less attetion to the origins

if a behavior can be learned, it can be unlearned, and replaced by other more adaptive

classical;operant

The cognitive therapy such as Aaron Beck's cognitive therapy for depression, it seems that our thinking influences our feelings, and that therapist role is to change client self-defeating thinking by training them to view themselves in a more positive ways. Rational emotive behavior therapy is a confrontational cognitive therapy that, actively changes irrational beliefs. The widely research and practice cognitive behavioral theory combines cognitive therapy and behavior therapy for helping clients regularly act out their new ways of thinking and talking in their everyday life.

by reflecting clients; feelings in a non directive setting, the humanistic therapies attempts to foster personal growth by helping clients become more self aware and self accepting. by making clients aware of self defeating patterns of thinking, cognitive therapies guide people towards more adaptive ways of thinking about themselves and their world

Aaron Beck

this integrative therapy helps people change self defeating thinking and behavior. IT has been shown to be effective for those with anxiety disorders, obsessive compulsive disorder, depressive disorders, bipolar disorder, and eating disorders

Group therapy sessions can help more people and costs less per person individual therapy board. Clients may benefit from exploring feelings in developing social skills in a group situation, From learning that others may have similar problems, and from getting feedback on new ways of behaving. Family therapy views a family as an interactive system and attempts to help members discover their roles they play and to learn to communicate more openly and directly.