“Psychotherapy in its most general sense is any cognitive and behavioral method used for the treatment of mental illnesses, mental disorders, behavioral disorders or alleviation of symptoms. Today, hundreds of different therapy methods, some of which are similar to each other and some of which are diametrically opposite, are applied in the world under the name of psychotherapy. Psychotherapy can be applied to many psychiatric disorders. In cases where the client has multiple psychiatric diagnoses, there is a common point to explain all the symptoms, and it may be necessary to help the client develop insight with psychotherapy by being better understood in his/her developmental history. The main point to focus on is choosing an approach that suits the client's needs.
Jerome D. Frank has argued that four common elements from which the client will benefit are in all psychotherapies:
- Emotional support
- Giving hope
- Revealing elements of how the problem arose
- Placing the problem in a larger context by comparing it with other people's problems, which is called normalization.
Emotional Support:
The therapist should accept the client as they are and try to understand him. During the therapy process, he should avoid judging him and using a critical tone, and set aside his own value judgments. In this support process, the therapist should guide the client in reorganizing their feelings, behaviors and thoughts. The person may also see his future as dark because of the negativities he has experienced in the past. At this point, the therapist should give hope to the client to develop a new perspective and reconsider their negative feelings and thoughts about the future. >
Before starting the treatment, the origin of the problem should be determined. For this, the client's life history should be discussed in detail.
Normalization:
Such a problem that the client's problem is not unique to In fact, the issue that everyone can experience should be addressed in therapy.
These four elements can be considered as the unspecified benefits that all psychotherapies provide. In addition to these, there are micro-skills that serve to respond “moment” and “moment” to the client throughout the therapy session. These are:
- Show empathy
- Encourage
- Asking clear, timely, non-threatening questions
- Appropriately expressing their thoughts
- Providing the client with the necessary realistic information.
The benefits of psychotherapy may also be affected by the following:
- Therapist's experience and training
- Origin
- Patient's gender
- Therapist's gender
- Patient's age
- Pre-treatment stress level
- The quality of cooperation between the therapist and the patient
- The therapist's compliance with the necessary treatment protocol
- The length of therapy
- The mode of transfer.
Therapeutic alliance requires a relationship of mutual trust. During this process, the client must be assured that his/her privacy will be protected
and the therapist must signal this. strong> Indicates trust and love.
Tasks: The agreement between the therapist and the client about what to do in therapy.
Goals: Common between the client and the therapist about the outcome of the treatment
As a result, the selection of the right approach and the support of the therapist in all matters throughout this process have a great role in the success of the psychotherapy process.
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