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| Saturday, December 02, 2006 |
| Depression and Psychotherapy |
Psychotherapy is the treatment that employs talking as the primary function. During psychotherapy there is minimal usage of medicines.
Psychotherapy can be Cognitive Behavior Therapy or Interpersonal Therapy. The most widely used therapeutic strategy is the Cognitive Behavioral Therapy.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy emphasizes on discussing the negative thoughts and the behaviors that leads to them. This kind of therapy focuses on reconstructing the thoughts, by helping the patients discover reasons, intuitions, and perceptions, thus teaching them to use this discovery to manage their lives while thinking more positively.
Interpersonal Therapy is a short-duration treatment for depression related disorders. The main concern of this kind of treatment is usually on the individual’s social and other relationships.
This therapy helps to improve the inter-relational skills, communication, emotion expression, dealing with situations in social circles, etc.
Although not much research has been done on psychotherapy, therapists use it worldwide as the first step for treating depression and related troubles. |
| posted by Rita Goh @ 10:55 PM |
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