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psychotherapy
psychotherapy treatment of mental and emotional disorders using psychological methods. Psychotherapy, thus, does not include physiological interventions, such as drug therapy or electroconvulsive therapy , although it may be used in combination with such methods. This type of treatment has been... Read more |
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group psychotherapy
group psychotherapy a means of changing behavior and emotional patterns, based on the premise that much of human behavior and feeling involves the individual's adaptation and response to other people. It is a process carried out in formally organized groups of three or more individuals who seek... Read more |
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Carl Ransom Rogers
ROGERS, CARL RANSOM(b. Oak Park, Illinois, 8 January 1902; d. La Jolla, California, 4 February 1987), psychology, counseling, psychotherapy.Rogers founded the client-centered, or person-centered, approach to psychotherapy. He pioneered techniques for quantifying and analyzing the raw data of... Read more |
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phobia
phobia (foh-biă) n. a pathologically strong fear of a particular event or thing. Avoiding the feared situation may severely restrict one's life and cause much suffering. Treatment is with behaviour therapy, especially desensitization or flooding. Psychotherapy and drug therapy are also... Read more |
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Carl Jung
Jung, Carl 1875-1961 FREUDIAN VERSUS JUNGIAN TRADITIONS THE STRUCTURE OF THE MIND AND ITS CONTENTS JUNG’S PERSONALITY TYPES THE NATURE OF MENTAL HEATH AND ANALYTICAL PSYCHOTHERAPY JUNG Read more |
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Antidepressants
Antidepressants Definition An antidepressant is a medication used primarily in the treatment of depression. Depression can occur if some of the chemicals called neurotransmitters in the brain are not functioning effectively. There are three specific chemicals that can affect a person's mood:... Read more |
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psychosocial
psychosocial (sy-koh-soh-shăl) adj. involving or relating to both the social and psychological aspects of a patient's life. p. assessment an interviewing technique that combines psychiatric history taking with elements of problem solving in psychotherapy, often used in patients who have... Read more |
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narcosis
narcosis , state of stupor induced by drugs. The use of narcotics as a therapeutic aid in psychiatry is believed to have a history dating back to the use of opium for mental disorders by the early Egyptians. Prolonged narcosis was employed at the beginning of the 20th cent.; its chief value was the... Read more |
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Carl Rogers
ROGERS, CARL (1902–1987) American psychologist and therapist, Carl R. Rogers relied on personal experience as well as scientific inquiry to guide his methodology, much of which foreshadowed late-twentieth-century practice of psychotherapy. Rogers was born in Oak Park, Illinois, to a... Read more |
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pedophilia
pedophilia psychosexual disorder in which there is a preference for sexual activity with prepubertal children. Pedophiles are almost always males. The children are more often of the opposite sex (about twice as often) and are typically 13 years or age or younger; they may be within or outside the... Read more |
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therapy
therapy • noun 1. limbs responding to therapysynonyms: treatment, remedy, cure. 2. receiving therapy for depressionsynonyms: psychotherapy, psychoanalysis. |
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Psychotherapy and antidepressant for panic disorder.
...agoraphobia, is usually treated with psychotherapy, with or without antidepressants...small, testing different types of psychotherapy, with different controls, and with...nine to 15 weeks. Different types of psychotherapy were used. Behaviour therapy consisted... |
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PSYCHOTHERAPY RESEARCH PIONEER HANS STRUPP DIES
...psychologist Hans H. Strupp, who helped psychotherapy gain legitimacy as a scientific discipline...in the study of the effectiveness of psychotherapy and the processes that accounted for...therapy known as time-limited dynamic psychotherapy. "One could reasonably argue that... |
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Psychotherapy in Russia: Historical backgrounds and current practice
...mental health, including psychotherapy. In this article, the...unfavorable toward Western-style psychotherapy. Also, the closely knit...main criticism of Western psychotherapies was that their main emphasis...historical background of psychotherapy in Russia. The main forms... |
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Psychotherapy--an active agent: Assessing the effectiveness of psychotherapy...
...expansion in research on psychotherapy in two areas...effectiveness of psychotherapy compared to wait...patients undergoing psychotherapy surpassed no-treatment...that the effect of psychotherapies were equal to, or... |
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Psychotherapy-driven supervision: integrating counseling theories into...
...strengths of mental health counselors, psychotherapy-driven supervision advocates blending psychotherapy-based approaches to supervision with...supervision. Strengths and weaknesses of psychotherapy-based approaches are discussed... |
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Psychotherapy services for students with emotional or behavioral disorders: A...
ABSTRACT Psychotherapy has been advocated as a critical mental health service...there are several questions concerning the provision of psychotherapy services: (a) Is psychotherapy a related service as defined by the Individuals with... |
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Psychotherapy Supervision: a Theory, Research, and Practice Study.
...researchandmarkets.com/research/290b68/psychotherapy_supe) has announced the addition...Wiley and Sons Ltd's new report "Psychotherapy Supervision: Theory, Research, and...current, and accessible guide to psychotherapy supervision, consult Psychotherapy... |
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Psychotherapy in psychiatry--reality, delusion or relic?(l)(Editorial)
...daily life in mindfulness.'(1) Psychotherapy has been viewed as a core clinical...reconsider this and related questions. Is psychotherapy still a necessary and wanted skill...rapidly expanding. Simultaneously psychotherapy has received more and more attention... |
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Psychotherapy in The Netherlands after the Second World War
Introduction The early history of psychotherapy in the Netherlands hardly differs from...later than in France and Germany, psychotherapy appeared during the last decades of...decades of the twentieth century, psychotherapy was narrowed down to mainly psychoanalytic... |
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Psychotherapy as a regulated profession considered in Ontario.(HEALTH)
Toronto -- Should psychotherapy be a regulated health profession in Ontario? This...the province, opposes any law creating a licensed psychotherapy profession. "Psychotherapy is an intervention and not a profession" the OASW... |
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