Therpay Methods

Therapy Methods

Art Therapy: Drawing, painting, or working with clay with an art therapist can help you express things that you may not be able to put into words. Art therapists work with children, teens, and adults, including people with disabilities.

Behavioral Therapy: This type of therapy is very structured and goal oriented. It starts with what you are doing now, and then helps you change your behavior. Behavioral therapists may use techniques such as:

Exposure therapy or desensitization. First you learn ways to relax. Then you learn to face your fears while you practice these relaxation skills.
Aversive therapy. This pairs something unpleasant with a behavior to help you stop the behavior. For example, putting something that tastes bitter on a child's thumb to help stop thumb-sucking.
Role-playing. This may help you be more assertive or help resolve conflicts between family members.
Self-monitoring, or keeping a log of your daily activities. This may help identify which behaviors are causing you problems.

Cognitive Therapy: This type of therapy takes the approach that how you think affects how you feel and behave. This therapy helps you recognize unhealthy ways of thinking that keep you stuck. You learn how to change your thoughts and this can lead to changed behaviors. It can also improve self-esteem and confidence. Cognitive-behavioral therapy combines behavior and cognitive therapy methods. You learn to identify automatic negative thoughts such as:

I never do anything right.

The world is always against me.

If I don't succeed all the time I am a failure.

Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT): This type of therapy can be used to treat older adolescents who have chronic suicidal feelings/thoughts, engage in intentional self-harm or have Borderline Personality Disorder. DBT emphasizes taking responsibility for one's problems and helps the person examine how they deal with conflict and negative feelings. This often involves a combination of group and individual sessions.

EMDR (eye movement desensitization reprocessing): In EMDR the therapist helps you cope with feelings and thoughts about distressing past events. You move your eyes back and forth, usually following the therapist's hand or pen, while you recall the event. This type of therapy is considered by many to be experimental. Family or Couples Therapy: Family therapists view the family as a system. They work with the whole family rather than just one person. The goal is for family members to openly their express feelings and to find ways to change negative family patterns.

Couples and Family Therapy: helps partners improve their ability to communicate with each other. It may help you decide what changes are needed in the relationship and in the behavior of each partner. Both partners then work to learn new behaviors. There are different forms of couples therapy.

Group Therapy: In group therapy a small number of people (6 to 10) meet regularly with a therapist. There are many types of therapy groups. Some focus on a specific problem such as anger management. Process groups do not focus on a single topic, but instead explore issues raised by members. Short-term groups are problem-focused and meet for a limited time, such as 6 to 12 weeks. Long-term groups deal with ongoing issues such as self-esteem.

Interpersonal Therapy (IPT): is a brief treatment specifically developed and tested for depression. The goals of IPT are to improve interpersonal functioning by decreasing the symptoms of depression. IPT has been shown to be effective in adolescents with depression.

Pharmacological Therapy (Medicines): Medicines can help improve your mental well-being. They may be prescribed by a psychiatrist or your health care provider. Your provider will work with you to carefully select the right medicine for you. There are many kinds of psychiatric medicines. The right medicine may improve symptoms so that other kinds of treatment are more effective. Medicines may also be used alone.

Antipsychotics may help with psychosis or other conditions.
Mood stabilizers may be used to treat mood problems such as bipolar disorder.
Antidepressants may help with depression or anxiety.
Antianxiety medicines may be prescribed to treat anxiety disorders.

Play Therapy: Play therapy allows children to act out their problems with toys and games. Play therapists help a child feel more confident and less fearful. Usually for children ages 3-10 years, but are also applied with other pre-verbal, non-verbal, or verbally-impaired persons, such as slow-learners, brain-injured or drug-affected persons.Psychoanalytic Therapy: This type of therapy was developed by Sigmund Freud. In this type of therapy, you work to uncover things from your past that affect your thoughts, emotions, and behaviors. This kind of therapy can take years. It usually involves meeting several times a week. It can be quite costly.

Psychodynamic Therapy: This type of therapy helps you bring your true feelings to the surface. If you repress (purposely forget) or deny painful thoughts, feelings, and memories, they can still affect your life. Once you are aware of these repressed thoughts, feelings, and memories they become less painful.

Psychoeducational Therapy: This type of therapy involves the therapist teaching instead of the client talking. You may learn about disorders, treatment options, and how to cope with symptoms. Therapists may provide you with useful information or may help you learn different skills. They work with individuals and groups.

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