Psychotherapy

All of us have our set daily routines which includes going to our workplace, attending to chores at home, spending time with our partners etc. Disruptive imbalances in the schedules for these activities may result in the entire living cycle getting disrupted. Mental Health professionals use an interpersonal intervention which allows us to deal with the problems of living. Communication as a group is extremely important for an individual and psychotherapy helps building the group relationship and communication channels strong.

What are the systems of psychotherapy?

  • Cognitive Behavioral - As per Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, in which cognitions, assumptions and beliefs are modified to influence disturbed emotions positively. This form of system of psychotherapy helps in the treatment of mood and anxiety disorders.

  • Psychodynamic - This is a type of psychotherapy which targets the unconscious content of a client's psyche. This is done with the endeavor of alleviating the client's psychic tension. Psychodynamic Psychotherapy is brief and intensive and also relies on the interpersonal relationship established between the therapist and the client.

  • Existential - Do you know that Existential belief advocates the fact that human beings are alone in the world? It does, and this basic principle goes on to attribute the thought of meaninglessness for the individuals. Existential psychotherapy taps on this thought allowing clients to discover the reasons for their anxieties and meaninglessness. This form mental health care is important as clients would know to manage their anxieties themselves thus emerging from the therapy as a sound individual.

  • Humanistic - A combination of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy and Behavioral Psychotherapy resulted in the emergence of Humanistic Psychology. Tapping the benefits from the existential, psychoanalytic and humanist forms of psychotherapy, humanistic psychotherapy advocates the fact that humans need to be valued and can't be just reduced to components.

  • Brief Therapy - Also known as Strategic Therapy or Solution Focused Therapy, Brief Psychotherapy encapsulates various therapies in one. The therapist is held responsible for being more pro-active in developing and maintaining relationships with the clients to ensure that clinical and subjective conditions are treated faster.

  • Systemic Therapy - There are so many cases of depression reported due to interaction patterns in a family. When the interactions between family members are not too constructive, it may impede the mental growth of the individual. Systemic Therapy studies, understands and attempts to cure the interaction pattern in families.

  • Integrative Psychotherapy - Fusion of different schools of Psychotherapy results in Integrative Psychotherapy. The four general routes to integrative psychotherapy are - Common Factors, Technical Eclecticism, Theoretical Integration and Assimilative Integration. Multi-theoretical Psychotherapy adds the principles of technical eclecticism and theoretical integration to form a new integrative model.