Test: Therapeutic Approaches

The inadequate marital, occupational, and social adjustment also requires major changes in an individual’s personal environment.

Lessening emotional pressure is one of the goals of psychotherapy.

There are two major components of a therapeutic alliance. The first component is the contractual nature of the relationship in which two willing individuals, the client and the therapist, enter into a partnership that aims at helping the client overcome her/his problems. The second component of the therapeutic alliance is the limited duration of the therapy. This alliance lasts until the client becomes able to deal with her/his problems and take control of her/ his life.

Psychodynamic therapy assumes the therapist understands the clients intrapsychic conflicts better than the client. Hence, the therapist interprets the client’s thoughts and feelings of the client to her/him so that s/he gains an understanding of the same.

Humanistic therapy values personal growth as the chief benefit.

Psychoanalysts look upon dreams as symbols of the unfulfilled desires present in the unconscious.

Negative transference is present when the client has feelings of hostility, anger, and resentment towards the therapist. The process of transference is met with resistance.

A depressed client would be treated differently from a client who is anxious.

Self-actualisation requires free emotional expression. Just as lack of food or water causes distress, the frustration of self-actualisation also causes distress.

This process of reflection helps the client to become integrated.