«I work with clients mainly using a cognitive behavioral perspective but I also
do interpersonal therapy and E.M.D.R. I help my clients work towards the goal of resolving their problems and improving their lives in a meaningful way.
Not exact matches
Marital
therapy is used to resolve
interpersonal anger and conflicts that diminish full sexual responsiveness and feed a couple's resistance to
doing behavior - changing exercises.
As systems
therapies emphasize more than
did Sullivan, intrapsychic growth is best sustained by constructive
interpersonal change.
The internist is equipped to treat the physiological problems and administer Antabuse; the psychologist is trained to
do testing through which the alcoholic's therapeutic needs can be evaluated, and he may be trained to
do research and psychotherapy; the psychiatrist, being a medical doctor like the internist, can prescribe medication, but his unique skills are in the area of individual and group
therapy and their relationship to drug
therapies; the social worker may be trained to help the alcoholic work through his marital and vocational problems and
do group as well as individual
therapy; the social worker may also work with spouses; the pastoral counselor is specially equipped by training to help the alcoholic with his «spiritual» problems as these relate to his sobriety and his
interpersonal relationships; he may also be trained to
do group and marital counseling; 40.
Although links are made throughout treatment between
interpersonal events and binge eating, the
therapy does not contain any of the specific behavioral or cognitive procedures that characterize CBT.
Interpersonal therapy with parenting enhancement
does not reduce depression symptoms in low - income mothers compared with control
10 Principles for
Doing Effective Couples
Therapy (Norton Series on
Interpersonal Neurobiology)
The review
did not include studies of
interpersonal therapy.
Although usually brief and effective with most sexual concerns, sex
therapy does not offer a miracle cure for all
interpersonal problems.
Some therapists can focus on childhood (not a cliché, rather a psychodynamic approach), while other therapists don't want to know about your childhood at all and prefer you to focus on the «here and now» (e.g. metacognitive
therapy); while others look into the future (e.g. solution focused
therapy, motivational interviewing,
interpersonal therapy).
By
doing so, researchers may illuminate practical issues related to pedagogy,
therapy, and marital counseling, as well as critical theoretical issues related to understanding the universality versus cultural specificity of
interpersonal relationship processes (Burleson, 2003).
That is true for cognitive behaviour
therapy,
interpersonal psychotherapy (IPT) and behavioural activation
therapy.1 One of the problems in this field is that all types of
therapy seem to be equally or about equally effective, 1 and there
does not seem to be one type of
therapy that is significantly more effective than others.2
For me,
interpersonal neurobiology is not a method of
doing therapy; it's more of a meta - framework.
In contrast, moderators are variables that can be measured before treatment and are associated with treatment outcome, but the magnitude or direction of the effect differs across treatments (e.g., if boys
did better in behavior
therapy and girls in
interpersonal therapy, then gender is a moderator).
Another systematic review of the effectiveness of psychotherapies for depression in adolescents as compared to treatment as usual or no treatment showed that psychotherapies (particularly cognitive behavioral
therapy and
interpersonal therapy) had superior effects over the other treatments, but this
did not last.
Couples seeking marriage or relationship
therapy do so to improve their relationships and may find this method a beneficial approach, as it can help people better understand both their own emotional responses in the context of
interpersonal interactions and those of significant people in their lives.
I believe that one person has tremendous power to change the dynamics of their
interpersonal interactions, so even if your partner isn't interested, or your family members refuse to join you in
therapy, there is still a lot you can
do.