Psychological
What is Psychotherapy?
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Treatment of emotional, behavioural or personality problems by psychological means.
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Different techniques may be used to treat the problems.
Characteristics of all Psychotherapies
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An intense, emotionally charged, confiding relationship with a helping person.
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A rationale, which contains an explanation of the patient’s distress and of the methods for its release.
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The provision of new information about the nature and origins of the patient’s problems and of ways of dealing with them.
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Hope in the patient that he can expect help from the therapy.
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An opportunity for experiences of success during the course of therapy and a consequent enhancement of the sense of mastery.
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The facilitation of emotional arousal in the patient. (Jerome Frank 1971)
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