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Supportive psychotherapy is a psychotherapeutic approach that integrates various therapeutic schools such as psychodynamic and cognitive-behavioral, as well as interpersonal conceptual models and techniques. The aim of supportive psychotherapy is to reduce or to relieve the intensity of manifested or presenting symptoms, distress or disability.
Jan 17, 2020 · Supportive psychotherapy (SP) is possibly the most ubiquitously used psychotherapy but is less researched. Since the beginning, compared to other psychotherapies, it is considered as an “inferior” therapy and is referred to as “Cinderella of Psychotherapies,” which can be used in multitude of clinical scenarios and settings. It can not ...
- Sandeep Grover, Ajit Avasthi, Mukesh Jagiwala
- 10.4103/psychiatry.IndianJPsychiatry_768_19
- 2020
- 2020/01
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Mar 8, 2023 · Supportive psychotherapy is a type of therapy that primarily focuses on providing emotional support, encouragement, and validation during difficult life circumstances or psychological...
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Symptomatic treatment, supportive care, supportive therapy, or palliative treatment is any medical therapy of a disease that only affects its symptoms, not the underlying cause.
Jul 30, 2020 · Supportive psychotherapy is often combined with medication and is necessary for patients with significant depressive symptoms, psychosis, bipolar disorder, posttraumatic stress disorder, and the like.
Jul 1, 2014 · The Wikipedia definition: “Supportive psychotherapy is a psychotherapeutic approach that integrates psychodynamic, cognitive-behavioral, and interpersonal conceptual models and techniques” ( 3) is unhelpful and wrongheaded.
Nov 28, 2018 · A general form of psychological treatment aimed at reinforcing existing defenses and alleviating distress through techniques that operate on a conscious level.
