The document describes a software tool called SHIFT that is designed to help therapists manage information from therapy sessions. It allows therapists to record detailed profiles of individual patients, including demographics, diagnoses, and treatment history. For each session, therapists can document characteristics of private sessions, groups, families or couples. The software tracks details like attendance, defenses used, and issues that arise. It provides statistics and reports on sessions. All data is securely stored in an encrypted database. The goal of SHIFT is to help therapists utilize session information to guide appropriate therapeutic interventions.

1. Session
Handling
Instrument For
Therapists
powered by

2. SHIFT
Customer Information
Full description of each patient’s demographic characteristics, references, hob-
bies, possible parallel or prior treatments, diagnoses and medication received.
All specific elements are selected from dynamic lists that the user can manage
directly.
Private Session
The private sessions of each patient can
be described to the desired fullness of
the user. The available data for registra-
tion are the type and the specific char-
acteristics of the session, arrival delays
or absence of the patient, the defenses
that he activates and any issues that
may arise during the session.
Groups – Families - Couples
Registration of the session participants, their
consistency, the specific characteristics of the
session, interaction between members, indi-
vidual and group issues. The meeting space
can be graphically depicted and altered by the
user. The seating arrangement of each meet-
ing is graphically depicted and the quality of
the transactions of the participants is indicated
by color coding.
Statistics and Reports
Both for private and group ses-
sions, statistics are provided for
the delay, absence, the defenses
raised, the interpersonal trans-
actions and the issues that arise
in sessions. A single or a se-
quence of sessions is available in
summary or detailed reports.
Data Security
All data stored in the system are located in a single data-
base that can be transferred from the computer for safety
or be encrypted to prevent access by unauthorized indi-
viduals.
SHIFT software promises to do exactly what its name implies: To provide to
the modern therapist the impetus to utilize the information handled in the
course of the sessions, thus leading to the most appropriate therapeutic in-
terventions.
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3. Psychotherapy is a dynamic process that may relate to the personal de-
velopment of an individual, to the management of a life crisis, as well as
to the attempt to solve problems in workplace, in sexual life, in interper-
sonal relationships.
Either during individual psychotherapy, or group analysis, family psycho-
therapy and couples therapy, whatever the patient communicates consti-
tutes a primary tool for the therapist with which he will help him evolve.
In all kinds of treatment, regardless of the extent of the focus on the
«here and now» of the sessions, the evolution of the attitude of the pa-
tient towards the stimuli of interpersonal transaction, his relationship
with set limitations, his consistency, the defense mechanisms he activates
and how these mutate over time, constitute critical therapeutic tools.
In cases of groups, families or couples who come for treatment, the flow
of information is even more complex due to the number of participants
or the possible co-therapy. Group phenomena come to the fore, the
transactions may have multiple potential recipients, and even the chosen
seat may be of importance.
SHIFT software constitutes a unique tool in the hands of the modern ther-
apist for managing information traded during sessions and for determin-
ing the most appropriate therapeutic interventions.
Session Handling Instrument For Therapists
Internet: http://shift.ccs.gr - Email: shift@ccs.gr
Tel: +30 2108051730