Psychotherapy is the treatment by psychological means of the problems of an emotional nature, in which a trained person deliberately establishes a professional relationship with the patient. In doing so his objectives are usually:-
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To remove to modify or to retard the existing disturbing symptom.
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To modify disturbed patterns of behaviors and
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To promote positive personality development and growth
Psychotherapy as systematic and persistent explorations of a neurotic patient’s mental process by verbal means in order to help him toward personal and social integration.
Psychotherapy is today used as a blanket term which includes among other things many diverse enterprising explorations covering a number of scientific techniques, which are often based on elaborate psychological theories about a person or practical experience or empirical research and which are often applied by a trained or recognized individual for the alleviation of persons sufferings, distress or inadequacies with an objective of fostering better personal interpersonal social and other type of adjustments.
OBJECTIVES OF PSYCHOTHERAPY.
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The broad objective is to bring about positive and long lasting desirable changes in a disturbed person’s behavior and or personality which will help him to lead a normal and effective life.
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To change the patients maladaptive thoughts, perceptions emotions and action into adaptive ones.
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To help the patient to develop effective ways of coping with various stressful stimuli or conditions in his environment.
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To improve his social and inter personal skills.
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To help him to develop positive self- regard, self- evaluation a realistic view have oneself and one’s environment
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To help the person to develop and verbalize more construction and rational thought and
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To help the patient to unlearn or discard faulty coping mechanisms and learn to imbibe effective and appropriate behavior and habit patterns.
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In short the major objectives of psychotherapy is removing, modifying or retarding existing symptoms to remedying disturbed patterns of behaviors and promoting positive personality growth development and functioning.
