PSYC 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Relationship Counseling, Family Therapy, Anxiety Disorder
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Individual therapy: group therapy, family therapy, couple therapy. Group therapy: involves therapist meeting with several people at the same time. All clients focusing similar problems (e. g. divorce: advantages: Guidance dissemination of information and advice. Catharsis can express feelings to others. Sharing and altruism share own experiences to help others. Skill building: acquire or improve social skills through interactions with others. Self-help group: popular forms of group therapy not involving a therapist: comprised of individuals at difference stages of recovery from common problem (substance abuse, help each other work through stages of recovery. Family therapy: members of family meet with therapist to discuss ongoing problems with family as a unit: members may meet with therapist alone, relationship structure(s) and communication among members is addressed (modified as necessary) Survey: 89% clients say at least fairly well satisfied. People usually enter therapy in a crisis with time most crises pass falsely attributed to (cid:862)therap(cid:455)(cid:863)