psychotherapy

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Introduction

Interventions aimed at changing basic mental functions in an individual or organizational or transactional patterns in families.

Behavioral psychotherapy:
- goals
  - increase frequency of positive experiences & reinforcers in a person's daily life
  - pinpoint obstacles to reinforcement
  - find susbtitute activity & new reinforcers when obstacles cannot be overcome
  - increase social involvement
Cognitive therapy:
- basic aim is to train patients to identify & change negative,thoughts, misconceptions or irrational thoughts
- coping & social skills training
Brief psychodynamic psychotherapy:
- focuses on issues such as:
  - unresolved grief
  - self integration
  - existential concerns
  - interpersonal problems

benefits of psychotherapy
affects symptoms such as:
- depressed mood
- anhedonia
- guilt & hopelessness
provides skills that helps patients cope with future problems
- a single session of psychotherapy
  - moderately effective for anxiety & conduct disorders
  - minimally useful for substance use disorders
  - ineffective for depression & eating disorders^[1]

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 Schleider JL, Weisz JR. Little treatments, promising effects? Meta-analysis of single- session interventions for youth psychiatric problems. J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry. 2017 Feb;56(2):107-115 <PubMed> PMID: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28117056 <Internet> http://www.jaacap.com/article/S0890-8567(16)31933-5/abstract
Schleider JL, Weisz JR. Reducing risk for anxiety and depression in adolescents: Effects of a single-session intervention teaching that personality can change. Behav Res Ther. 2016 Dec;87:170-181. PMID: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27697671