Insight Therapies and Action therapies Name Institution Introduction Therapy refers to treatment methods aimed at making people feel better or function in a better way. Insight therapy and action therapy fall under psychotherapy. Psychotherapy refers to therapy of mental disorders, which involves the individual talking to a professional psychologist to solve his problem. This paper focuses on insight and action therapies. It looks at the goals, the techniques, as well as the approaches applied in the two different kinds of therapy. The primary objective of insight therapy is helping the patients understand and gain insight of their behavior, thought, and feelings. The main purpose of action therapy, on the other hand, is to change poor or inappropriate behavior and correct it so that the individual acts in a normal way. Insight therapy involves various techniques (Glaser, 2000). These include psychodynamic therapy, person-centered therapy as well as Gestalt therapy. Action therapy, on the other hand, focuses on methods such as behavior therapy, cognitive …show more content…
They employ different approaches, techniques and they have different goals and results. The different methods would also work differently depending on the individual problem that a patient has (Wiener, 2003). The two categories have their differences; however, both action therapy and insight therapy apply methods that suit the patient and help the patient deal with the challenges that they face mentally (Wiener, 2003). References Glaser, W. (2000). Reality therapy in action. New York: Harper Collins Publishers Hill, C. (2004). Dream work in therapy: Facilitating exploration, insight, and action. Washington, D.C: American Psychological Association. Wiener, D. (2003). Action therapy with families and groups: Using creative arts improvisation in clinical practice. Washington, D.C: American Psychological
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
The purpose of this paper is analysing the contributing treatment approaches that resulted in the emergence of the Behavioural Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT). The paper presents and analyses the contributions that previous psychological treatment methods made in culminating the CBT. To this end, the paper presents the main treatment methods that are assumed to be most important and analyse their main arguments in
Cognitive behavioral therapy is a theory that deals with depression and ways to relieve the depression. The theory is based on the assumption that events happen and affect the behavior and emotions of an individual. When a positive event happens, there are three things that get to the depressed individual. First, the depressed child or adult think about the event. The depressed person selectively chose the negative aspect of the event and sees themselves as failure. Second, the emotions of the child or individual go down. Third, what the person does is withdrawal, de-activation,
A sixteen year old teenager refuses to leave home and the therapist must review the situation from a MRI therapeutic approach. First, the MRI approach would not focus on the problem or how it developed but rather what efforts have the parent made to reach a resolution. MRI stems from the premise that families use practical attempts at resolving their situation but the attempts are ill-advised. MRI’s main focus is aimed at dilemma driven solutions; there is no advantage in long term change or what capacity the problem serves within the family.
When children are presented with Art Therapy, it may be geared towards creative style and imagination.
In the article with Cohen and Semple (2009), mindful interventions can help families grow in their behaviors. Parental distress has reactions on their children. Interventions can improve a relationship between a parent and their child (Cohen & Semple, 2009). Interventions can treat eating disorders, generalized anxiety disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and alcohol and substance abuse programs, as well as mood-related disorders (Cohen & Semple, 2009).
Cognitive Behavioral therapy approach, a client-centered therapy, will guide clients’ to remove negative thoughts, build up positive thoughts and behavioral change can be made. Since the one's cognition is based on the assumptions of previous experiences, by re-addressing the situation with evaluation can be helpful for the client to alter the thoughts. For example, a role-playing of anger causing situations, and self-monitoring (making a record of) anger in day-to-day living.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is intended to test your own thoughts. It is a type of therapy that can help people recognize and change damaging or troubling thought patterns that have a negative influence on their behavior. For example, addiction. An offenders thought could be “I need to get high.” A balanced thought would be, “I want to get high, but if I don’t, I will survive.” We can support that balanced thought with evidence. You do not need to get high. If you do not get high, blood will still pump through your veins and you will survive without it.
Interventions can also help this individual not only better understand there situation but also help the help. The intervention techniques I will be conducting Is this involves a series of one-on-one therapy sessions to help patients to establish and understand their thoughts, feelings and actions, and how they affect their symptoms. It also encourages patients to reconsider their lifestyle and monitor their thoughts and action to help reduce the recurrence of symptoms.
Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy helps the patient establish a plan of treatment and takes action to prevent relapse. The therapist will work with the patient by isolating the root cause(s) of the addiction. In addition, to prevent a relapse the patient will be equipped with relapse-prevention training. Relapse-prevention training is where the patient will keep track of their additive patterns. Once the patterns are acknowledged, the patient can become more aware of what triggers their cravings so they can make adjustments accordingly.
C., 2014). A form of treatment called psychotherapy or talk therapy teaches individuals how to cope and function with their emotions and behaviors (Staff M. C., Mayo Clinic, 2013). There are four forms of psychotherapy, one is dialectical behavior therapy. DBT can be done in 3 ways: group, individuals and phone sessions (Staff M. C., Mayo Clinic, 2014). DBT helps individuals learn how to control their emotions and how to improve their relationships with themselves and others (Health) through means of “meditation-like exercises” (Staff M. C., Mayo Clinic, 2014). Mentalization-based therapy focuses on the individuals thought processes and helps them differentiate between their own thoughts and feelings from others around them (Staff M. C., Mayo Clinic, 2014). Transference-focused psychotherapy helps individuals learn to how to develop relationships by first developing a relationship with their therapist and taking what is learned from that and applying it to their outside relationships (Staff M. C., Mayo Clinic, 2014). Finally there is schema-focused therapy that combines all other forms of therapy and helps with changing the way the individuals express themselves by bringing attention to the positives and work on changing the negatives about themselves and their lives (Staff M. C., Mayo Clinic,
According to the National Institute of Mental Health in 2015 there were an estimation of 9.8 million adults by the age of 18 with a serious mental illness (National Institue of Mental Health , N.D). Mental illness throughout the world is constantly arising. Throughout this paper I will discuss Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and the efficacious results. I will also discuss different healthcare professionals that used this therapy and had encouraging results.
Even without a cure doctors throughout the world have found treatments for patients to cope with the disease. People with PTSD usually have to get a treatment called Cognitive Therapy. In cognitive therapy, a therapist will lead them into understanding and change how they approach the trauma and after it happens. Thoughts about the trauma can cause stress and make symptoms worse for their everyday lives and this therapy is to help them cope with those problems (“Treatment of PTSD”). Cognitive-processing therapy is to assist many victims of different scenarios who get diagnosed with PTSD. This treatment includes exposure and emphasis on the therapy because it could help people avoid the wrong thinking of the actual event. This treatment also
In it's simplest form, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, (or CBT as it will be referred to from here on out), refers to the approach of changing dysfunctional behaviors and thoughts to realistic and healthy ones. CBT encompasses several types of therapy focusing on the impact of an individual's thinking as it relates to expressed behaviors. Such models include rational emotive therapy (RET), rational emotive behavioral therapy (REBT), behavior therapy (BT), Rational Behavior Therapy (RBT), Schema Focused Therapy, Cognitive therapy (CT). Most recently a few other variations have been linked to CBT such as acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), dialectic behavioral therapy (DBT), and
Among the three main approaches to insight therapy (psychoanalysis, client-centered, or group therapy), the one that l believe has the most reasonable way to deal with psychological problems, is client-centered therapy. Client-centered therapy is an insight therapy that emphasizes providing a supportive emotional climate for clients, who play a major role in determining the pace and direction of their therapy (pg. 459). According to Carl Rogers, the man who devised client-centered therapy, three elements were necessary to promote positive changes in therapy: Genuineness (honest communication), Unconditional positive regard (therapist remains supportive, non-judgmental) and Empathy (therapist understands issues from client’s point of view) (pg. 460). In following these three elements, client and therapist were working together equally and helped client become more aware of themselves and even feel more comfortable with their therapist and the idea of therapy. Some people don’t seek help because they feel therapy might be too intimidating for them or it’s a step that they fear having to take. I can agree with this, because from my personal experience, l had pushed off therapy for so long because l was afraid to admit that l needed it.