This document discusses psychotherapy, including its objectives, classification, and treatment modes. Psychotherapy aims to help patients relieve symptoms, resolve problems, and promote personal growth through a structured relationship with a trained therapist. It can help patients accept themselves, empower life changes, and cope more effectively, though it cannot change their environment. Psychotherapy classifications include individual, group, couple, and family therapies. Therapies also differ in content and methods, such as analytic, interpersonal, cognitive, behavioral, and cognitive-behavioral approaches. Psychotherapy provides a safe setting, working alliance, and confidential therapeutic relationship to help patients identify and change unhelpful behaviors/thoughts, improve relationships, learn problem-solving skills, and set realistic goals

1. PSYCHOTHERAPY

2. Objectives
• What can psychotherapy accomplish
• Classification of psychotherapy
• Treatment modes

3. Definition
 A process which attempts to help the
patient relieve symptoms, resolve
problems or seek personal growth
through a structured relation (i.e.
specified goals and methods) with a
trained professional therapist.

4. Psychotherapy
• It can not alter the problem of world in
which patient lives
• But it can enhance self acceptance,
empower the patient to make life changes
and help patient to cope with enviroment
more effectively

5. What can psychotherapy accomplish?
• Learn to identify and change behaviors or
thoughts that adversely affect life
• Explore and improve relationships
• Find better ways to cope and solve problems
• Learn to set realistic goals
• Can be combined with other types of treatment,
such as medications

6. All psychotherapies provide:
• A working alliance between patient and therapist
• An emotionally safe setting where the patient
can feel accepted, supported, un-criticized
• A therapeutic approach that may either be
strictly adhered to or modified according to
patient needs
• Confidentiality as integral to therapeutic
relationship except with safety issues

7. Who seeks therapy…and why?
• Children: behavioral, school, family issues
• Adolescents: as above and issues of separation
and peer relationships
• Young adults: all of above plus career issues
• Mature adults: all of above plus issues of
changing relationships, family alignments, health,
work and social status
• Older adults: all of above plus end of life issues

13. Classification of Psychotherapy
• according to who is involved in the treatment
• an individual
• a group
• a couple
• a family therapy

14. Classification of Psychotherapy
• according to the content and methods used
• analytic
• interpersonal
• cognitive,behavioral, cognitive - behavioral
• All psychotherapies are aimed at changing
aspects of the patient

15. Who can really be a psychotherapist?
Adequately trained and certified
• Psychiatrist
• Psychologist
• Social worker
Untrained persons not tested for competence!
• anyone can call themselves a “therapist!”
• Nurse practitioner
• Physician assistant
• Minister, priest

16. TYPES OF PSYCHOTHERAPY
Individual Psychotherapy
•Psychoanalysis
•Hypnosis
•Abreaction
•Reality therapy
•Uncovering
Behavioral Psychotherapy
•Behavior Modification
•Systematic Desensitization
•Aversion therapy
•Assertiveness training
•Cognitive behavior therapy
•Implosive (flooding) therapy
•Positive reinforcement
-Response shaping
-Modelling
-Token economy
Interpersonal Psychotherapy
•Marital therapy
•Family therapy
•Transactional therapy
Group Psychotherapy
Other Psycho-social
therapy
•Therapeutic community
•Millieu therapy
•Occupational therapy
•Play therapy
•Recreational therapy
•Music therapy
•Dance therapy