Treatment Approaches

8 important questions on Treatment Approaches

What are 4 mental disorder treatment approaches?

1. Psychodynamic Therapy
2. Behaviour Therapy
3. Cognitive and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
4. Humanistic-Experiential Therapy

How has psychodynamic therapy changed since Freud?


- Face-to-face interaction instead of ‘couch’ setup

- Active conversation instead of interpretation of ‘free associations’

What are the 2 cognitive & cognitive-behavioural therapy therapies?

1. Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy (Albert Ellis)
2. Beck's Cognitive Therapy
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What are the 3 humanistic-experiental therapies?

1. Client-Centered Therapy (Carl Rogers)
2. Gestalt Therapy
3. Process-Experiental Therapy

What are the 3 core conditions of Client-Centered Therapy?

1. The therapist is congruent with the client (also called genuineness)  
--> Be authentic!

2. The therapist provides the client with unconditional positive regard  
---> Accept your client as s/he is!

3. The therapist shows empathetic understanding to the client  
---> Be empathic!

What is the uniformity myth of treatment?

  • None of them has proved to be consistently superior
  • People with different disorders may respond differently to various forms of therapy
  • Conclusions and techniques are often compatible
  • Biopsychosocial theories (diathesis-stress)
  • Combining treatment techniques from different models (= Rapprochement movement)

What are common strategies of effective therapists?

  • Give feedback to clients!
  • Help clients focusing on their own thoughts and behaviour!
  • Pay attention to the client-therapist interaction!
  • Maintain the appropriate boundaries at all times! Avoid boundaries violations!

What statistic demonstrates that treatment is effective?

The average person who receives psychotherapy experiences greater improvement than do 75% of all untreated people with similar problems

(slide 2, p. 11 lecture notes)

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