Humanistic existential approach to psychotherapy
foundational to psychiatric mental health, nursing
Central tenants of holism
Self actualization
Therapeutic alliance
Supportive psychotherapy is used to have clients
Who are experiencing emotional distress or problems in living
Supportive psychotherapy is appropriate for clients experiencing
Stressful situations, including clients with psychotic personality organization. Those
were the preoccupied or overly emotional attachment style and those with immature
defenses.
The goals of supportive therapy include
Problem solving
Management of feelings and life stressors
Symptom relief
Sessions are less frequent lemon, psychoanalysis
Supportive therapy is used for
Stabilization
Resource building
Anxiety reduction
Problem solving
Techniques used supportive therapy include
PEER
Providing comfort
Empathetic, listening
Encouragement
Reassurance
SUPPORTIVE PSYCHOTHERAPY PROVIDES AN OPPORTUNITY FOR THE CLIENT
EXPRESSED THEMSELVES AN accepting ENVIRONMENT
Psycho analysis is commonly used for which type of patients
, Patience with anxiety
OCD
Depressive disorders
Personality disorders
Sexual dysfunction may be helpful for clients whose personality traits are interfering in
their relationships
Goals of psychoanalysis include
Development of deeper understanding of self, and desire to create change
Clients who are likely to benefit from psycho analysis include
Reality oriented clients with mature defenses, and a strong sense of self and clients with
neurotic to healthy personality organization
Techniques with psycho analysis include
WRRITF
Working through
Recollection
Repetition
Interpretation
Transference
Free association
To be successful, the client should be able to
Think of distract and be self motivated
Contraindications to psychoanalysis are
Clients who are not motivated
Those who have poor impulse control
Clients who are concrete thinkers
And those amid major and physical or emotional crisis
Psychoanalysis tends to be more intense than other forms of psychotherapy, in
terms of
The frequency of sessions, and the intense nature of the transference that occurs
Psychoanalysis typically involves several sessions per week over several years
talk therapy is individualized the techniques applied by the psychoanalyst are