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Overview of Psychotherapy Types

The document outlines several types of psychotherapies including remotivation therapy, music therapy, play therapy, group therapy, milieu therapy, family therapy, psychoanalytical therapy, behavioral modification, cognitive therapy, humanistic therapy, and activity therapy. Behavioral modification aims to change maladaptive behaviors through learning and can include techniques like operant conditioning, desensitization, and aversion therapy. Family therapy views problems as arising from family interactions and aims to help members develop identity.

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Overview of Psychotherapy Types

The document outlines several types of psychotherapies including remotivation therapy, music therapy, play therapy, group therapy, milieu therapy, family therapy, psychoanalytical therapy, behavioral modification, cognitive therapy, humanistic therapy, and activity therapy. Behavioral modification aims to change maladaptive behaviors through learning and can include techniques like operant conditioning, desensitization, and aversion therapy. Family therapy views problems as arising from family interactions and aims to help members develop identity.

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  • Types of Psychotherapies

Types of Psychotherapies

Remotivation Therapy
• Treatment modality that promotes expression of feelings through interaction
facilitated by discussion of neural topics
Music Therapy
• Involves use of music to facilitate expression of feelings, facilitate relaxation and
outlet of tension
Play Therapy
• Enables patient to experience intense emotion in a safe environment with the use
of play.
• Children express themselves more easily in play, revealing as reflection of child's
situation in the family.
Group Therapy
• Treatment modality involving three or more patients with therapist to relieve
emotional difficulties, increase self-esteem, develop insight, learn new adaptive
ways to cope with stress and improve behavior with others (relationship with
others can be worked through)
• Ideal 8-10 members
Milieu Therapy
• Consists of treatment by means of controlled modification of the patients
environment, facilitate positive behavioral change.
• Increase patient’s awareness of feelings, increase sense of responsibility and help
return to community.
Family Therapy
• A method of psychotherapy which focuses on the total family as an interactional
system.
• Problem is a family problem.
• Focus on sick member’s behavior as source of trouble/symptom serve a function
for the family.
• Members develop sense of identity
Psychoanalytical
• Focuses on the exploration of the unconscious, to facilitate identification of the
patient’s defenses.
• Becomes ware of unconscious thoughts and feelings. Understand anxiety and
defenses

Behavioral Modification
• A therapeutic intervention involving the application of learning principles
in order to change mal-adaptive behavior.
• Psychological problems are a result of learning.
• Deficiencies can be corrected through learning.

Operant Conditionings
• Use of rewards to enforce positive behavior.
• Perceived and self-reinforcement becomes more important than external.
Desensitization
• Slow adjustment or exposure to feared objects (used in Phobias)
• Periodic exposure, until undesirable behavior disappears or lessens.
Aversion Therapy
• Example of behavior modification in which painful stimulus is introduced to
bring about an avoidance of other stimulus with the end view of facilitating
behavioral change.

Cognitive Therapy
• Short term structured therapy – oriented towards present problems abd
solutions – focus of depressive disorders.
Human Therapy
• To facilitate expression and enhance interaction.
Activity Therapy
• Group interaction while working on a task together

Types of Psychotherapies Remotivation Therapy • Treatment modality that promotes expression of feelings through interaction
• Perceived and self-reinforcement becomes more important than external. Desensitization • Slow adjustment or exposure to fea

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