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behavioral: Behavioral therapy centers on the process of understanding behavior in context. Therefore, a functional behavioral assessment is needed before performing behavior modification.
client-centered: Client-centered therapists have a more personal relationship with the patient to help the patient reach a state of realization that they can help themselves. They do this by pushing the patient towards growth, stressing the immediate situation rather than the past.
cognitive: Cognitive therapy seeks to counteract known "errors in thinking" that cause cognitive disorders.
cognitive-behavioral: A Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is a psychotherapy based on modifying cognitions, assumptions, beliefs and behaviors, with the aim of influencing disturbed emotions. Common techniques include keeping a diary of significant events and associated feelings, thoughts and behaviors; questioning and testing cognitions, assumptions, evaluations and beliefs that might be unhelpful and unrealistic; gradually facing activities which may have been avoided; and trying out new ways of behaving and reacting.
dialectic behavior: Dialectical behavioral therapy is a psychosocial treatment developed to treat individuals with borderline personality disorder. While DBT was designed for individuals with borderline personality disorder, it is used for patients with other diagnoses as well. The treatment itself is based largely in behaviorist theory with some cognitive therapy elements as well. Unlike cognitive therapy it incorporates mindfulness practice as a central component of the therapy.
EMDR: Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessingis an approach developed to resolve symptoms resulting from exposure to a traumatic or distressing event, such as rape. Clinical trials have demonstrated EMDR's efficacy in the treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder.
experiential: The use of adventure in therapy has a long history that has influenced the most recent forms of adventure practices in the therapeutic process. Influences from a variety of learning and psychological theories have contributed to the complex theoretical combination within adventure therapy. The learning theories are collectively known as experiential education. Existing research in adventure therapy reports positive outcomes in effectively improving self concept and self esteem.
family systems: Family therapy, also referred to as couple and family therapy and family systems therapy, is a branch of psychotherapy that works with families and couples in intimate relationships to nurture change and development. It emphasizes family relationships as an important factor in psychological health.
general clinic therapy
gestalt: Gestalt Therapy is an existential and experiential psychotherapy that focuses on the individual's experience in the present moment, the therapist-client relationship, the environmental and social contexts in which these things take place, and the self-regulating adjustments people make as a result of the overall situation. It emphasizes personal responsibility.
Hakomi method: Hakomi therapy is a form of body-centered, somatic psychotherapy. Practitioners of Hakomi look at people as self-organizing systems, organized psychologically around core memories, beliefs, and images; this core material expresses itself through habits and attitudes that make people individuals.
holomorphic healing: Holomorphic healing is one of the techniques used in Kabbalistic medicine.
humanistic: Humanistic psychology is a school of psychology that emerged in reaction to both behaviorism and psychoanalysis. It is explicitly concerned with the human dimension of psychology and the human context for the development of psychological theory.
hypnosis: A procedure during which a health professional or researcher suggests that a client, patient, or subject experience changes in sensations, perceptions, thoughts, or behavior. See http://www.hypnosis-research.org/hypnosis/serious.html
integrative: Integrative psychotherapy entails the fusion of separate schools of therapy.
interpersonal: Interpersonal Psychotherapy is a time-limited psychotherapy that was developed in the 1970s and 80s as an outpatient treatment for adults who were diagnosed with moderate or severe non-delusional clinical depression.[1] It has its roots in the interpersonal theory of psychiatry
Kabbalistic healing: Kabbalistic healing is derived from Kabbalah, the study of the inner secrets of the Torah.
Learning Disorders
neuropsychiatry: Neuropsychiatry is the branch of medicine dealing with mental disorders attributable to diseases of the nervous system.
non-diet: The non-diet approach to health and weight management supports the inclusion of all foods. This freedom from restriction and deprivation decreases attachment to former forbidden foods and helps with compulsive/binge eating. The creed for the non diet approach is ‘eat when you are hungry and stop when you are full’. It focuses on recognition of hunger and fullness cues and distinguishes between other signals that masquerade as hunger or satiety. This approach takes mindfulness and introspection, and can feel liberating. It provides relief from never having to diet again.
nutrition
play therapy
psychodynamic: Psychodynamics is the study of human behavior from the point of view of motivation and drives, depending largely on the functional significance of emotion, and based on the assumption that an individual's total personality and reactions at any given time are the product of the interaction between their conscious/unconscious mind, genetic constitution and their environment.
psychotherapy: Psychotherapy is an interpersonal, relational intervention used by trained psychotherapists to aid clients in problems of living.
sandplay
schema: A schema is a mental structure that represents some aspect of the world. Examples of schemata include rubrics, stereotypes, social roles, scripts, worldviews, and archetypes.
solution-oriented: Solution focused therapy or 'brief therapy' is a type of talking therapy that is based upon social constructionist philosophy. It focuses on what clients want to achieve through therapy rather than on the problem(s) that made them seek help.
supportive: Occupational therapy refers to the use of meaningful occupation to assist people who have difficulty in achieving healthy and balanced life; and to enable an inclusive society so that all people can participate to their potential in daily occupations of life.
systemic: Systemic therapy, or Marriage and Family therapy, is a professional and conscious attempt and method to study, understand and cure disorders of the interactional whole of a family and its individual members as family members. The aim of Family therapy is that the interactional patterns which prevent individual growth will change.