Supportive psychotherapy is a psychotherapy that requires psychiatric diagnostic evaluation and in which the therapist's interventions are planned and designed to achieve a specific goal. It is based on psychodynamic
foundations. However, the psychotherapist using this type of therapy can be eclectic (holistic; also making use of other psychotherapy techniques) in terms of the intervention tools he/she uses, taking into account the needs of the patient.
Today, supportive psychotherapy is the most widely used method among individual psychotherapies.
Purposes; improve symptoms; reduce or prevent the risk of relapse of the mental disorder; repairing, maintaining and improving self
self-esteem, ego functions and adaptive skills; It is to help the individual cope with a current problem, even if he/she does not have a mental
disorder.
The mental problems and diseases for which it is most frequently used and most effective are; depressive disorder, phobic disorders,
panic attacks and panic disorder, social phobia, psychological factors affecting the physical condition (psychosomatic
disorders), mourning process, suicide crisis or after, crisis situations in marital problems, early dementia
/> stages are substance abuse, schizophrenia and all personality disorders.
In addition, in the terminal stages of some medical diseases (such as AIDS, cancer, some neurological diseases), patients with chronic
medical diseases (asthma, Supportive
psychotherapy is used in cases of psychological problems (such as diabetes, adaptation after transplantation) and acute medical diseases (after heart attack, spinal cord injuries).
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