Psychology 1000 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Unconditional Positive Regard, Interpersonal Psychotherapy, Therapeutic Relationship
4 Jun 2018
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Brief Psychodynamic Therapies
• Classical psychoanalysis is an expensive and time consuming process
• There is no evidence that long-term classical analysis yields better therapeutic
outcomes than briefer forms of psychodynamic therapy
• Brief psychodynamic psychotherapies emphasize understanding the maladaptive
influences of the past and relating them to current patterns of self-defeating behaviours.
• Many of these therapies utilize basic concepts from psychoanalysis, but they employ
them in a more focused and active fashion
• Therapist and client usually speak face to face, and this communication replaces free
association
• Clients are seen less frequently and the goal is to help the client deal with specific life
problems rather than attempting to rebuild their personality
• This therapy would focus on the client’s current life situation and teach them skills to
cope rather than analyzing childhood
• One example of brief psychodynamic therapy is interpersonal therapy – focuses on
the client’s current interpersonal problems, which include dealing with role disputes,
adjusting to the loss of a relationship or to a changed relationship, and
identifying/correcting deficits in social skills.
• Interpersonal therapy has been proven to be one of the more effective therapies for
depression
Humanistic Psychotherapies:
• Humanistic theorists view humans as capable of consciously controlling their actions
and taking responsibility for their choices and behaviour
• They also believed that people possess inner resources for self-healing and personal
growth, and disordered behaviour reflects a blockage of this natural resource.
• This blocking is brought about by distorted perceptions, lack of awareness about
feelings, or a negative self-image.
• Therapist’s goal is to create an environment in which clients can engage in self-personal
growth and to remove the barriers that block their natural tendencies towards personal
growth
• Focuses primarily on the present and future instead of the fast
Client-Centered Therapy:
• The best-known and most widely used form of humanistic therapy, which was
developed by Carl Rogers
• Roger’s research/experience as a therapist identified 3 important and interrelated
therapist attributes:
• 1. Unconditional positive regard – communicated when therapists show clients that
they genuinely care about and accepts them, without judgment or evaluation. The
therapist also communicates trust in regards to the client’s ability to recover.
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