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Proposes that psychotherapy (PT) for most patients, both long-term and brief, should be based on a supportive PT model. Supportive and expressive techniques in PT can be located on a continuum. Traditionally, PT has been oriented toward the expressive end of the continuum, applying the model of psychoanalytic or expressive therapy to all therapy. The style of supportive PT is conversational ...
Dec 1, 2019 · Supportive psychotherapy is a form of psychotherapy that uses empirically and evidence-based techniques—that is, techniques that have been observed to work to. promote a generally positive and nonconflictual therapist-patient relationship; enhance the patient’s strengths, coping skills, and capacity to use environmental supports; reduce the ...
Apr 1, 2008 · For the sake of clarity and because it is a model that is easier for the beginner to assimilate, supportive therapy is often taught as a “pure culture” form of dynamic therapy with its own distinct goals, methods, and techniques and is differentiated as much as possible from more exploratory approaches to highlight their theoretical and ...
defines brief supportive psychotherapy (BSP), a manualized, “common factors” treatment that has fared well in research settings, which may provide a model for clinical and research use in the future. “I don’t get no respect.”–Rodney Dangerfield (1) What is supportive psychotherapy? The term has beenwidelyused ...
It is proposed that for most patients, the model for individual dynamic psychotherapy should be based on concepts from the supportive end of the continuum. Supportive and expressive techniques in psychotherapy can be located on a continuum. Traditionally, psychotherapy has been oriented toward the expressive end of the continuum, applying the model of psychoanalytic or expressive therapy to ...
Dec 12, 2019 · The aim of psychotherapy, whether supportive or expressive, is to help the client make a better adjustment to reality. In expressive psychotherapy (EP), this is done by strengthening the ego. In contrast, SP accepts the ego more or less as it is and aims to improve adaption by modifying the demands made upon the ego.
Apr 1, 2006 · Supportive therapy is the psychotherapeutic approach employed with the majority of mentally ill individuals. Nevertheless, most mental health professional training programs dedicate little time and effort to the teaching and learning of supportive therapy, and many mental health professionals are unable to clearly and concisely articulate the nature or process of supportive work. Although ...
