PSY 121 Lecture 38: lecture 38
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Approach where therapist sees both partners in a couple and helps them to manage inevitable conflicts that occur in all relationships. May use psychodynamic, behavioural, cognitive, or humanist approaches in their work. In practice, many therapists take an integrative approach to psychology. Evaluating psychotherapy: success of therapy depends on quality of relationship between therapist and client. Therapeutic alliance: bond of confidence and mutual understanding established between therapist and client, which allows them to work together to solve the client"s problems. Client"s motivation to improve important in success. Cultural match may help with client disclosure and mutual trust relationships (cultural group therapy also a popular approach) New therapies: gap has widened with the continued generation or repackaging of new therapies, some claim to be highly successful, yet lack any empirical evidence to suggest they are any better than standardized techniques. Examples: neurolinguistic programming (nlp), eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (emdr)
