This document discusses psychotherapy and compares it to spirituality. It defines psychotherapy as treating psychological problems and mental distress through approaches like psychodynamic, cognitive-behavioral, and humanistic therapy. Psychotherapy aims to return patients to psychological normalcy by providing a safe, impartial perspective outside of close personal relationships. Factors like the therapeutic relationship and client motivation contribute more to outcomes than specific techniques. The document also examines who seeks psychotherapy and for what issues, and provides a case study example. It concludes that while spirituality can be preventative, psychotherapy offers curative solutions through proven brain changes.

1. PREETHI BALAN
Date :11th October 2012
PGDCP
AIPS

2. OBJECTIVE
 To highlight the importance of psychotherapy in the fast paced
world around us.
 To bring about the key features of psychotherapy how it works
 How it compares with spirituality

3. WHAT IS PSYCHOTHERAPY
 Psychotherapy is a general term that is used to describe the process of
treating psychological problems and mental distress
 Goal: increase sense of well-being, reduce discomfort
 The approaches used in Psychotherapy
 Psychodynamic: insight-oriented therapy.0 An approach to therapy
that involved delving into a patients thoughts and past experiences to
seek out unconscious desires or fantasies.
 Cognitive-behavioral: A type of psychotherapy that involves cognitive
and behavioral techniques to change negative thoughts and maladaptive
behaviors.
 Humanistic: A form of therapy that focuses on helping people
maximize their potential.

4. WHY PSYCHOTHERAPY
 Psychotherapy aims to return its patients to a semblance of
psychological normalcy
 Tallman (1999): Outside therapy people rarely have friends
who listen for more than 20 minutes. People close often
involved in problem and can’t provide safe impartial
perspective

5. WHAT WORKS IN PSYCHOTHERAPY
 Bruce Wampold (2001) suggested
 “Extra-therapeutic” Factors (87%)
 Therapeutic Factors (13%)
 Therapeutic Alliance (8%)
 Therapeutic Allegiance (4%)
 Therapy model or technique (1%)
 Lambert (1992) estimates 40% client changes due to
motivation or severity of problem; 30% to quality of
therapeutic relationship; 15% to expectancy (placebo)
effects, and 15% to specific techniques.

6. WHO SEEKS & WHY?
 Children: behavioral, school, family issues
 Adolescents: as above and issues of separation and peer
relationships ,technology addiction
 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

7. CASE
 One day at Amity a new student finds her way the Counseling
Center …
 She’s made friends, joined extra-curricular activities, likes her
hostel, and even enjoys the lectures..
 But she just can’t get things done. In fact, she can not even start
things. And its not because of her study skills or motivation…
but she is just unable to concentrate

8. PSYCHOTHERAPEUTIC
INTERVENTION
 The psychotherapeutic interventions that can be used are
 Cognitive Behavior Therapy:
 Person should be asked to focus on Thought –Behavior-
Action
 Work on short term goals & contiously monitor his TEA
system

9. NEW AGE DISORDERS &
PSYCHOTHERAPY
 A South Korean couple who let their baby starve while they
played role-playing game Prius Online for up to 12 hours at a
time.
 The treatment for addiction to technology can be through
psychotherapy eminent to help “Screenagers”.
 The treatment Dr Graham has designed is in three stages. It
begins with psychotherapy designed to address the patient's
issues with face-to-face relationships.
 The next stage is to unpick their relationship with technology
and encourage them to switch it off, and finally they are
encouraged to take part in both physical exercise and activities
with family and friends.

10. CONSUMER REVIEW

11. RESEARCH STUDIES
Meta Analysis -Results of nearly 400 controlled evaluations of
psychotherapy and counseling were coded and integrated
statistically. The findings provide convincing evidence of the
efficacy of psychotherapy. On the average, the typical therapy
client is better off than 75% of untreated individuals. Few
important differences in effectivenesscould be established among
many quite different types of psychotherapy. -Unoversity of
Colorado

12. SPIRITUALITY
 Spirituality origin of the word is from Latin word “Spiritus”
meaning “BREATH OF LIFE”
 Spirituality is mostly understood through religion and its
interpretation which often are misrepresented.
 Most Religions we do not develop faith in ourselves by
focusing on the self, its symptoms, and healing, as
psychotherapy does.
 In many religions on looks away from the self and its narrow
orbit of concerns and toward the mysterious existence of the
Other–God, our neighbors, the greater society, the universe
itself.

13. CONCLUSION
 Considering that psychotherapy offers a breath of life to
those ailing it is spiritual in nature
 There are many schools of thought in psychotherapy and
there is no one “right” approach
 You must consider multiple “patient factors” when
recommending psychotherapy
 With the complexities of life Psychotherapy offers
solutions.
 Proven evidence of change in the brain activity through
psychotherapy ,hence results can be considered Tangible
results
SPIRITUALITY CAN SURELY BE PREVENTIVE
BUT PSYCHOTHERAPY IS CURATIVE !!!!!!