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- DictionarySup·port·ive ther·a·py/səˈpôrdiv ˈTHerəpē/
noun
- 1. treatment designed to improve, reinforce, or sustain a patient's physiological well-being or psychological self-esteem and self-reliance.
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Jun 2, 2013 · Supportive Psychotherapy. Helping those who have emotional problems. Posted June 2, 2013|Reviewed by Devon Frye. The number of people living as patients in psychiatric hospitals has...
Jul 30, 2020 · Based on these objectives, the definition of supportive psychotherapy most commonly used, as you’ll see in the new book of which I am co-editor, is “a dyadic treatment that uses direct techniques to ameliorate symptoms and maintain, restore, or improve self-esteem, ego functions, and adaptive skills with a focus on the patient’s overall health a...
Jul 1, 2014 · What is supportive psychotherapy? The term has been widely used, poorly and variously defined, and often disparaged. It can mean anything and nothing; yet also, when carefully defined and applied, it can describe a potent treatment that (I will argue) lies at the core of all good psychotherapy.
Mar 2, 2022 · “Supportive psychotherapy” is a hoary term with many definitions, most of them pejorative. The term originated as a description of the lesser therapy offered to patients who could not tolerate psychoanalysis: in effect, a “second-class” therapy for “second-class” patients ( 1 ).
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. [1] The aim of supportive psychotherapy is to reduce or to relieve the intensity of manifested or presenting symptoms, distress or disability.
Jan 11, 2022 · Supportive psychotherapy has been variously described as an attempt to shore up rather than alter psychic defences and as gentle hand‐holding. It has probably encompassed various forms of muddled eclectic psychotherapy 2 .
What is Supportive John C. Markowitz, M.D. Psychotherapy? Abstract: This article reviews the meaning, use, and utility of supportive psychotherapy, a widespread treatment with an undeservedly malign birthright and history. This entails sorting through the historical definitions of supportive
