This document provides an overview of various psychotherapies used to treat mental illness. It discusses therapies such as psychodynamic therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy, aversion therapy, humanistic therapy, and systemic desensitization. It also covers different types of group therapies, couple therapy, and creative therapies. The document describes how each therapy works, what problems it aims to treat, and its potential benefits. It provides examples to illustrate techniques used in cognitive behavioral therapy and systemic desensitization.

2. Psycho therapies
Subject : Psychiatry

3. •Name: Humna Aqil
•BSOT semester 3
•Department of health professionals
technologies
•University of lahore
•Presented to Mam Bareera saeed.

4. Psychotherpy
•Psychotherapy is the general term used to treat mental
illness by talking with psychologist , psychiatrist, or
counsellors.
•It help a person to change its behaviour, in personality
grooming and in controlling emotional disturbances.

5. Cont...
•Psychotherapy help people in controlling trouble
shoooting problems and in treating the mental sicknees
caused by any event or trauma
•It also helps people regaining their self confidence and
coping with the problems of societies

6. Who is psychotherapist:
•A psychotherpaist uses talk therapy to treat mental
disorder, or emotional break down of a patient.
•They can work with individuals, or a group of people
or in family or can be a couple therapy as well.

7. Problems solved by therapist:
•The problems which are treated by a psychotherapist
or psychiatrist are:
•The impact of trauma.
•The death of any loved one.
•depression
•Anxiety
•Illness or mental loss like dimentia.

8. TYPES OF PSYCHOTHERAPIES:
•The therapies may be
•Psychodynamic therapy.
•Behaviour therapy.
•Cognitive behaviour therapy.
•Aversion therpay.
•Humanistice therapy
•Systematic desensitisation.

9. Psychodynamic therapy
•Psychodynamic therpay works with patient in different
way, like talking to him to encover the different
patterns of thinking he has in his mind.
•It also common talk about childhood ,or past traumas
any fantasies, or reccuring dreams you have .

10. How it works!
•The therapist works with your mind to find the
connection between unconcious mind and actions you
have done.
•It works with analytic theory.
•As our uncious mind is rooted with deep and past
thoughts and feelings and behaviours so this therapy
helps in reviving thise flash backs.

11. Benifits of pyschdynamic therapy:
•The psychodynamic therapy works with variety of
individual having
Anxiety
Depression
Addiction
Eating disorder.
Or people who lost the meaning of their life.

12. Cognitive behaviour therapy.
•The cognitive behaviour therapy explains that our
behaviour changes our thoughts and those thoughts
effects our feelings.

13. Goals of CBT:
•The goals of CBT are self awareness of client. This
help in reading their own thoughts and distniguishing
between good and bad.
•Helping them to accept that the bad thoughts affects
our feelings badly.
•Prevention of future episodes of distress and emotional
disturbances .

14. Benifitsof CBT:
•Develop an awareness of automatic thoughts.
•Distinguish between rational and irrational thoughts.
•Unserstands how past experiences affects the feelings
and beliefs.
•Understands peoples actions and feelings.
•Stop taking the blame of any mishappened.
•Face their fears and phobias.

16. Benifits:
•Panic disorder.
•Postraumatic stress disorder
•Anger
•Childhood depression
•Social phobia
•Eating disorder.
•Martial conflict.

17. Example Of CBT:
•The patient enjoys taking long walks so the
therapist helps in doing the same and tells him
about the benifits of taking the activity that makes
them relaxing and fresh.

18. Aversion Therapy
•Aversion therapy helps patient reduce or avoid
the situation that cause bad feeling or bad
patterns if behaviours conditioning the person
assiciate the behaviour with undesirable stimulus.

19. Example:

20. Behavioural therapy:
•The behavior therapy is the umbrella term under which
the psychotherapies lies.
•The therpay includes learning therapies that change
unhealthy behaviour

21. Bad Impact:
•Some therapist thought that aversion therapy can not
be given because the there will be a bad impact of the
activity on patient.
•Using bad stimulus equal to the using punishment in
therapy. Which is viloation of the rules of psychiatric
department.

22. Humanistic therapy:
•It is the mental approach that emphasizes that how true
you are to yorself.
•It describes that everyone in the worlds has its unique
way of thinking and view of the world.
•It also dsscribes that people are good at heart and can
make good decision of their choices.

23. Humanatic approach:
•This is done by unserstanding that people respect you
and You can change the worlds perspective of thinking
about you.
•Humanistic therapy helps you in both develop self
acceptance and overcome crticism of world.

24. Benefits of Humanistic therapy.
•The therapy treats
•Anxiety and depression
•Lowered self esteem
•People struggling with PTSD.
•Overcoming the critism of society.

26. Maslow’s theory
•Malsow s theory of hierarchy is based on diferent
levels of needs in which the motivation is explalained.
•There are five level of hierarchy .
•The goal is to complete these levels of heirarchy in
order to achieve the ideal conequence.

28. Systemic desitization
•It increases the self control of a person on a fear or a
phobia .
•This therapy was introduced by african psychiatrist
Joseph wolpe.
•It was used to treat different phobias and anxiety
disoreder with the help of classical conditioning.

29. Systemetic desensitisation
•A behavioural therapy technique in which the person.
Is gradually( one by one ) exposed to the fear causing
agents in order to cope with that phobia or fear in
some time of relaxation and tension.

30. Steps of densitization:
• Three steps of densitisation:
• Establish the anxiety stimulus hierarchy. Individual
should first identify the items that nake them anxious
or causes trouble doing their daily life activities.
• Every fear is treated differently and seperatly.

31. Steps cont...
•Learning the mechanism of support and response.
•There may be different strategies to cope with the
different fears of a client.
•The strategy include relaxing and tensing differnt parts
of the body until it reaches patience.
•Other ways include giving medication to the patient.

32. Steps cont...
•Connect stimulus to the incompatible reaponse .
•Im this method the levels of hierechy is set up and fear
level is increased one by one.
•First the lowest level thing is encounterd when the
client become serene than the higher level is given.
•In this the client overcome the highest kevel of phobia.

33. Example:
•The client is afraid of snake.
•He is been treating by this therapy by first ask him to
think about snake. After some session ask him to see
the picture of snake than growing to the next level he
will be able to face snake in his life and in this way the
snake fear has gone.

34. Group Therapy:
•Group therapy is a form therapist working with several
people at the same time.
•Group therapy is sometimes used alone but also
integrated into a comprehensive treatment that also
includes kndividual therapy.

35. Types of group therapy:
•Closed Session:
•Which a only acore group members are invited
participate.
•Open session:
•In which any client or person can join at any time.

36. Types of group therpies:
•Psychoeducation group therapy
•Skill development group therapy
•Cognitive behavioural therapy.
•Interpersonal process group therapy
•Support group therapy.

37. • Benifits of therapy:
•The therapy is use to treat
•ADHD
•Depression
•Anxiety
•Panic disorder
•Substance abuse disorder.

39. Couple therapy
•Couple therapy is the used to improve the relationship
between you and your partner.
•This help in maintaining ideal goals of relationships
•It can help at any stage of relationship with motional,
or martail breakdown, regardless of race , faith or sex.

40. Couple therapy:
•Steps to creat the ideal relationship is to
•Identify the problem.
•Talk about feelings of each other.
•Explore the past.
•Then finding the best solution.

41. Benifits of couple therapy:
•The couple will regain the confidence if each other .
•Couple will spent nore time together.
•The partner get to know each others beliefs and values.
•This will also effect the metal health of their child
•Communication with help solving many problems.

42. Creative therapies:
•The creative therpaies helps a client to express all the
feelings through the art or a play.
•Therapy may increase the motivation of a client to
cure themselves from any disorder or mental illness.

43. Benefits of creative therapy or play therapy:
•The clients to which play therapy helps is with
•Alzhimer disease.
•Trauma stress
•Substance abuse
•Dimentia
•chronic mental illness.

44. References:
• The little psychotherapy book by allan frankland.
• Psyciatry .org.com