Assignment on Supportive Psychotherapy

 Assignment on Supportive Psychotherapy

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 Assignment: Supportive Psychotherapy versus  Interpersonal Psychotherapy

Although supportive psychotherapy and interpersonal psychotherapy share some similarities, these therapeutic approaches have many differences. When assessing clients and selecting therapies, it is important to recognize these differences and how they may impact your clients. For this Assignment, as you compare supportive and interpersonal psychotherapy, consider which therapeutic approach you might use with your clients.

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The Assignment

In a 1- to 2-page paper, address the following:

· Briefly describe how supportive and interpersonal psychotherapies are similar.

· Explain at least three differences between these therapies. Include how these

differences might impact your practice as a mental health counselor.

· Explain which therapeutic approach you might use with clients and why. Support

your approach with evidence-based literature.

Supportive psychotherapy is a psychotherapeutic approach that integrates various schools to provide therapeutic support. It includes components from therapeutic schools such as psychodynamic, cognitive-behavioral, and interpersonal conceptual models and techniques.^[1] The aim of supportive psychotherapy is to reduce or to relieve the intensity of manifested or presenting symptoms, distress or disability. It also reduces the extent of behavioral disruptions caused by the patient’s psychic conflicts or disturbances.^[2] The objective of the therapist is to reinforce the patient’s healthy and adaptive patterns of thought behaviors in order to reduce the intrapsychic conflicts that produce symptoms of mental disorders. Unlike in psychoanalysis, in which the analyst works to maintain a neutral demeanor as a “blank canvas” for transference, in supportive therapy the therapist engages in a fully emotional, encouraging, and supportive relationship with the patient as a method of furthering healthy defense mechanisms, especially in the context of interpersonal relationships.

Uses[edit]

This therapy has been used for patients suffering from severe cases of addiction as well as bulimia nervosa, stress and other mental illnesses.^[3]

Supportive psychotherapy is used as an initial therapy, to be reduced and not to be prolonged, in situations or periods where there is a lack of means for a systematic approach or behaviorism. Examples of such situations include:

• critical negotiations
• volatile but unavoidable everyday life or decisive situations
• compromises (to introduce at least minimal operational, efficient relationship conditions) in long term, engaged relationships, based on lasting agreements

A systematic review examined the effectiveness of supportive therapy for people with schizophrenia:

Internet-based[edit]

Internet-based supportive psychotherapy is a type of supportive psychotherapy that is characterized by having a two-hour initial meeting between the client and therapist, and then periodic and occasional study conducted by therapist through email and telephone.^[5]

Research directions[edit]

Some studies suggest that genetics, animal studies and neuroscience may have an impact or play a role in supportive psychotherapy.^[6]

See also[edit]

• Phenomenology

References[edit]

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