1. Psychological Therapies
Myrhen Kaye Jamo
Rigiel Manahan
Keana Trasporte

2. Therapy
Treatment methods aimed at making people feel better and function more effectively.

3. Two Kinds of Therapy
Psychotherapy
Biomedical Therapy

4. Psychotherapy
The kind of therapy that involves application of psychological principles.
Its main goal is to help both mentally healthy and psychologically disordered person understand themselves better.

5. Insight Therapies Action Therapies
Main purpose is to gain understanding into one’s motives and actions
Action Therapies
Directed more at the changing of the behavior

6. Biomedical therapy
Uses a medical procedure to bring about changes in behavior

7. The Early Days

8. Philippe Pinel
Became famous for demanding that the mentally ill be treated with kindness
He personally unlocked the chains of inmates at Bicetre Asylum in Paris, France

9. Sigmund Freud
Developed a treatment called psychoanalysis that focused on releasing a person’s hidden, repressed urges and concerns from the unconscious mind.

10. Dream Interpretation
Analysis of the elements within a patient’s reported dream

11. Free Association
Encouraged his patients to freely say whatever came into their minds without fear of being negatively evaluated or condemned.

12. Resistance Transference Countertransference
The point at which the patient becomes unwilling to talk about certain topics
Transference
The point at which the therapist becomes a symbol of a parental authority figure from the past
Countertransference
The therapist has a transference reaction to the patient

13. Freud’s original therapy technique is criticized for its lack of scientific research and his own personal biases that caused him to misinterpret much of what his patients revealed.
Modern psychodynamic therapists have modified the technique so that it takes less time and is much more direct, and they do not focus on the id and sexuality as Freud did.

14. Humanistic Therapy
Focus on the conscious mind and subjective experiences to help clients gain insights.
Emphasizes the importance of the choices made by individuals.

15. Two Most Common Humanistic Therapy
Person-centered Therapy
Gestalt Therapy

16. Person-centered Therapy
Carl Rogers
Very nondirective
Allows client to talk through problems and concerns while the therapist provides a supportive background
The closer the real and ideal selves match up, the happier and more well adjusted the person

17. Four Basic Elements Reflection Unconditional Positive Regard
The technique the therapist must use to allow clients to continue to talk and have insights without the interference of the therapist’s interpretations and possible biases.
Unconditional Positive Regard
The warm, accepting, completely uncritical atmosphere that the therapist must create for the clients

18. Empathy
The therapist has to be able to acknowledge what clients are feeling and experiencing.
Authenticity
The therapist has to be able to tolerate a client’s differences without being judgemental.

19. Motivational Interviewing
Its main goal is to reduce ambivalence about change and to increase intrinsic motivation to bring that change about
Four principle
Express empathy
Develop discrepancy between the client’s present behaviors and values
Roll with resistance
Support the client’s self-efficacy

20. Gestalt Therapy More directive
Helping clients to become aware of their feelings and to take responsibility for their choices in life
Try to help clients deal with things in their past that they have denied and will use body language and other nonverbal cues to understand what clients are really saying

21. Humanistic therapies are also not based in experimental research and work best with intelligent, highly verbal persons