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Self-Monitoring

Self-monitoring requires clients to be mindful of the “what,” “where,” “when,” and “why” of the behavior they have targeted for change and to keep a car…

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Counter Conditioning

The type of counter-conditioning most widely used for therapeutic purposes is systematic desensitization, to reduce or eliminate fear of a particular ob…

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Negative Punishment

In contrast to positive punishment that occurs when the presentation of a stimulus, termed a positive punisher, weakens the behavior that caused this...

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Short Term Therapies - Defining Features

Time is a key element: Therapy is “time limited,” allocating a fixed number of sessions for clients. Focus: Therapy targets specific patterns rather tha…

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Existential Therapy

Existential therapy reacts against the tendency to view therapy as a system of well-defined techniques; it affirms looking at those unique characteristi…

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Technical Neutrality

Offering what is perhaps the most comprehensive formulation of neutrality that has appeared to date, Schafer lists six characteristics of the neutral po…

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Importance of Psychotherapy for Cancer and AIDS patients

The patients of both these and other terminally-ill diseases need care. Care is “the process of helping ill people with cancer and AIDS live as well and…

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Attachment Based Interventions - Concept and Techniques

Following are approaches used by mainstream attachment theorists and clinicians aimed at infants or children who have developed or are at risk of develo…

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Solution Focused Therapy - Features and Treatment Principles

By focusing on client goals and quickly initiating a search for imagined or experienced exceptions to client patterns, solution-focused therapists are a…

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Cognitive Behaviour Therapy - Process

Cognitive-behavioral therapy is an action-oriented form of psychosocial therapy that assumes that maladaptive, or faulty, thinking patterns cause malada…

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