Psychological Therapies

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  • Psychoanalysis Therapy

    Emphasizes the recovery of unconscious conflicts, motives and defenses through techniques such as free association and transference
  • Operant Therapy

    Practices behavior modification. Reinforces desired behaviors and withholds reinforcements for undesired behaviors or punishing them.
  • Gestalt Therapy

    Emphasizes the wholeness of the personality and reawakens people to the emotion and sensation in the here and now.
  • Client- Centered Therapy

    Insight therapy emphasizes providing a supportive emotional climate for clients, who play a major role in determining the pace and direction of therapy
  • Humanistic Therapy

    Emphasize each person's internal feelings, thoughts, and sense of basic worth, humanist believe that people are naturally good, our personality and behavior depends on how we perceive and interpret the world, humanistic psychology was developed largely by Carl Rogers and Abraham Maslow
  • Aversion Therapy

    Designed to remove unwanted pleasant associations associated with maladaptive behavior and replace them with negative associations using classical conditioning
  • Cognitive Therapy

    insight therapy that emphasizes recognizing and changing negative thoughts and maladaptive beliefs. Therapists will try to persuade clients to change their way of thinking