Brief Psychodynamic Research

These can typically last from one year to a year and half that includes individual or group therapy. It mainly concentrates on the maladaptive thoughts. Behavioral techniques are incorporated into therapy, such as homework assignments and role playing. Sabine Keller et al mentions that DBT has five components that are essential for it to be effective: individual therapy, skills training group therapy, therapists’ consultation, phone consultation between each session, and the structure of the client’s environment (Keller, et al., 2017). DBT is a complicated therapeutic treatment since it combines four modes (individual therapy, group skills training, constant phone support and consultation meetings) as well as four modules (conscientiousness, distress tolerance, social relationship influence and regulation of emotions). As stated by Thomas A. Field, the reasoning for the modality is to allow the clients to discover how to develop coping skills to manage emotional distress (Field, 2016).

Cognitive therapy is one of the few theories that have been extensively scientifically tested and found to be highly effective in over 300 clinical trials. It focuses on the immediate or automatic thoughts the client has and how these thoughts affect their feelings and behaviors. The goal of cognitive therapy is to identify these thoughts that are poorly affecting the client. Then teach the client how to identify these automatic thoughts and how they can effectively change them. Through the very structured sessions of cognitive therapy, a client should essentially learn the tools to be their own cognitive therapist for future problems they may encounter. The therapy session will not make them an expert but they will be better prepared to

Counselling and psychotherapy are very different areas of speciality than psychiatry or psychology. Yet it is from these two health practices that counselling and psychotherapy practice emerged. The emergence and beginning of this takes us back initially to 1887, when the specialism of psychotherapy emerged in psychiatry. In the nineteenth century there was a general shift towards science and

Both psychotherapy has an expiration time, and not concerned a long therapy. They work on the

I primarily believe in the behavioral perspective. However, on the topic of obsessive compulsive disorder I find that I favor the psychodynamic perspective. OCD is classified as a long lasting disorder, in which a person has recurring thoughts and behaviors they feel need to be completed repetitively. I tend to favor the behavioral perspective because I agree with the idea that outside factors influence a persons responses and behaviors. Throughout childhood and even more on, one is constantly taught about their environment and they learn everything they need to know in life through this perspective. Whether that be conditioning a child as they grow, so that they are able to learn and differentiate good from bad through reward and punishment. To understanding why an individual acts a certain way and what

The need for an alternative approach to therapy was recognized as mental health practitioners began to observe the amount of energy, time, money, and other resources spent discussing and analyzing the challenges revealed during the therapy process, while the issues originally bringing an individual to therapy continued to have a negative impact. Steve de Shazer and Insoo Kim Berg of the Brief Family Therapy Center in Milwaukee, along with their team, developed solution-focused brief therapy in the early 1980s in response to this observation. SFBT aims to develop realistic solutions as quickly as possible, rather than keeping people in therapy for long periods of time, in order to promote lasting relief for those in therapy.

In this paper, I will discuss the case study of “Ana”. Ana is 24 years old, has lost her job, and worries about becoming homeless. She currently is a single parent due to her husband being deployed in a combat zone overseas for the next eight months. Ana is a first generation immigrant from Guatemala; she comes from a large family. She claims to have a close relationship with her family but has not seen her family for about a year. Her father is a banker and her mother an educator, her three siblings all has graduated college and have professional careers. Ana has completed one year of college, but needed to leave school after her son was born, finding it difficult to manage being a parent, student and a full-time employee as well. While showing signs of being depressed and anxious, she has agreed to eight sessions for treatment. Using this background information in this paper will cover the use of Solution Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT) for the treatment of Ana.

In cognitive behavior therapy there are three main goals a therapist tries to achieve, “ relieve the symptoms and help clients resolve the problem, then help clients develop strategies that can be used to cope with future problems, finally help clients change the way they think from irrational, self-defeating thoughts to more rational, self-helping, positive thoughts” (Ciccarelli, White 2015). When interviewing friends the first step was to find out what their most impacting problems were. Then they talked about ways they could help relax themselves when or if the situation every happened again. Finally they came up with ways they could look at their problems in a more positive way. After the interviews

Cognitive-Behavioral therapy (CBT), founded by Aaron T. Beck in 1976, is a theory that strategizes on changing an individuals thinking as the gateway to change (Henderson & Thompson, 2016). Beck along with Albert Ellis believed that an individual's unconscious assumption of them and development of reason is the target for intervention (Henderson, 2016). Furthermore, the relationship between a patients behaviors, thinking, and emotions is the main objective for this type of therapy. Like other therapies, Cognitive-Behavioral therapy has its pros and cons, but also applies many ideas, thoughts, and benefits for children in need.

In addition, it is impossible to generalize the structure of the therapeutic alliance because it will depend on the goals and tasks of the therapy. All therapists have different methods for achieving different goals, so the course of development of the therapeutic alliance will vary. For example, in classical psychoanalysis, the patient needs to say anything that comes to mind without filtering the undesirable thought. On the other hand, cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) requires time and effort, so the client can slowly face the problem and replace the dysfunctional behavior or cognition pattern, with a reasonable behavior or cognition pattern. The difference in requirements from the patients will influence the course of development of the therapeutic alliance, but all approaches rely on a reliable therapeutic alliance created from the beginning of the therapeutic process.

The main goal of CBT is to help individuals and families cope with their problems by changing their maladaptive thinking and behavior patterns and improve their moods (Blackburn et al, 1981). Intervention is driven by working hypotheses (formulations) developed jointly by patient, his/her family and therapist from the assessment information. Change is brought about by a variety of possible interventions, including the practice of new behaviors, analysis of faulty thinking patterns, and learning more adaptive and rational self-talk skills. (Hawton, Salkovskis, Kirk, and Clark, 1989).

Mary is 29 year old white female who has 2 children and is divorce from her husband whom she said kept her on a tight lease, engaged in drug use and was very controlling. She stated the cause of the divorce was catching her husband in the bed with another woman and she was having a hard time forgiving him. She has 2 children by her former husband but is currently now in a new relationship. She also worries about the welfare of her children when they go over to visit their father and states that her son often comes back defiant and angry. Mary states that she feels lethargic and is having difficulties with her son and he new boyfriend. Despite being sent home for behavioral issues she is at a loss as to how to assist her son. Mary does not having a lot of support from her family. Her mother previously engaged in drug use but is now clean and lives far away. Her father and her have a strained relationship since he cheated on her mother and she admitted that she has had a hard time forgiving him for such actions.

This strategy tends to focus on one major issue enabling the client, and therapist to solely focus on that issue, which is usually identified in the initial session. The goal of brief intervention strategy is to determine what happened in the client’s past, that is causing problems in his or her present (Thomas, 2008). In the case of Deidre, I as her counselor would focus on her issues of abandonment. Deidre has issues with abandonment ranging from her mother (indirectly and directly), her father through death, a perceived threat of abandonment by her boyfriend, and even feeling of abandonment by peers (Laureate Education,

The therapist’s role is to lead the client to behavioral change and to assist in an effective and efficient way. Solution focused therapist believe that the client is the expert in their own life and are capable to solve their

It includes self help techniques that focus on the problems of the individual and symptoms that they experience, it requires structured sessions with a psychologist and it involves confronting emotions. This therapy