An List Of: Talking Therapies/Counselling

An List Of: Talking Therapies/Counselling For Mental Health/Depression:

I've done my best to copy & paste all Therapies/Treatments for Mental Health, from: Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

Some of these Therapies/Treatments for Mental Health, may also be used for Chronic Pain & so on.

Not every therapy/treatment for Mental Health had a Description on: Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

So here's a full list of: Psychotherapies: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_psychotherapies & www.cpp-network.com/index.php?page=subject_areas

An List Of: Talking Therapies/Counselling For Mental Health/Depression: Acceptance and Commitment Therapy: (ACT): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acceptance_and_Commitment_Therapy

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT): (pronounced \"act\" not \"ay see tee\"), is a branch of cognitive-behavioral therapy, an empirically based psychological intervention, that uses acceptance and mindfulness strategies, together with commitment and behavior change strategies, to increase psychological flexibility.[1]

Basics: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acceptance_and_Commitment_Therapy#Basics

ACT is developed within a pragmatic philosophy called functional contextualism.

ACT is based on Relational Frame Theory (RFT), a comprehensive theory of language and cognition that has emerged within behavior analysis.

ACT differs from traditional Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) in that rather than trying to teach people to better control their thoughts, feelings, sensations, memories and other private events, ACT focuses on what they can control more directly: their arms, legs and mouth.

ACT teaches them to \"just notice\", accept, and embrace their private events, especially previously unwanted ones.

ACT helps the individual get in contact with a transcendent sense of self known as \"self-as-context\" — the you that is always there observing and experiencing and yet distinct from one's thoughts, feelings, sensations, and memories.

ACT aims to help the individual clarify their personal values and to take action on them, bringing more vitality and meaning to their life in the process.

The core conception of ACT is that psychological suffering is usually caused by experiential avoidance, cognitive entanglement, and resulting psychological rigidity that leads to a failure to take needed behavioral steps in accord with core values.

As a simple way to summarize the model, you can say that ACT views the core of many problems to be due to FEAR:

*Fusion with your thoughts

*Evaluation of experience

*Avoidance of your experience

*Reason giving for your behavior

*And the healthy alternative to be to ACT:

*Accept your reactions and be present

*Choose a valued direction

*Take action

An List Of: Talking Therapies/Counselling For Mental Health/Depression: Adlerian Therapy: (Adlerian): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adlerian

Adlerian is an umbrella term that encompasses a diversity of approaches to psychology and psychotherapy generally related to the ideas of Alfred Adler: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Adler

An List Of: Talking Therapies/Counselling For Mental Health/Depression: Analytical psychology (or Jungian psychology): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analytical_psychology

Analytical psychology (or Jungian psychology) refers to the school of psychology originating from the ideas of Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung, and then advanced by his students and other thinkers who followed in his tradition.

It is distinct from Freudian psychoanalysis but also has a number of similarities.

Its aim is the apprehension and integration of the deep forces and motivations underlying human behaviour by the practice of an accumulative phenomenology around the significance of dreams, folklore and mythology.

Depth psychology and archetypal psychology are related in that they both employ the model of the unconscious mind as the source of healing and development in the individual.

Overview: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analytical_psychology#Overview

Jung developed his own distinctive approach to the study of the human mind.

In his early years when working in a Swiss hospital with schizophrenic patients and working with Sigmund Freud and the burgeoning psychoanalytic community, he took a closer look at the mysterious depths of the human unconscious.

Fascinated by what he saw (and spurred on with even more passion by the experiences and questions of his personal life) he devoted his life to the exploration of the subconscious.

Unlike many modern psychologists, Jung did not feel that experimenting using natural science was the best means to understand the soul.

For him, an empirical investigation of the world of dream, myth, and soul represented the most promising road to deeper understanding.

The overarching goal of Jungian psychology is the reconciliation of the life of the individual with the world of the supra-personal archetypes.

Central to this process is the individual's encounter with the subconscious.

The human experiences the subconscious through symbols encountered in all aspects of life: in dreams, art, religion, and the symbolic dramas we enact in our relationships and life pursuits.

Essential to the encounter with the subconscious, and the reconciliation of the individual's consciousness with this broader world, is learning this symbolic language.

Only through attention and openness to this world is the individual able to harmonize their life with these suprapersonal archetypal forces.

\"Neurosis\" results from a disharmony between the individual's consciousness and the greater archetypal world.

The aim of psychotherapy is to assist the individual in reestablishing a healthy relationship to the subconscious (neither being swamped by it — a state characteristic of psychosis — nor completely shut off from it — a state that results in malaise, empty consumerism, narcissism, and a life cut off from deeper meaning).

The encounter between consciousness and the symbols arising from the subconscious enriches life and promotes psychological development.

Jung considered this process of psychological growth and maturation (which he called the process of individuation) to be of critical importance to the human being, and ultimately to modern society.

In order to undergo the individuation process, the individual must be open to the parts of oneself beyond one's own ego.

In order to do this, the modern individual must pay attention to dreams, explore the world of religion and spirituality, and question the assumptions of the operant societal worldview (rather than just blindly living life in accordance with dominant norms and assumptions).

An List Of: Talking Therapies/Counselling For Mental Health/Depression: Art therapy: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_Therapy

Art therapy is a form of expressive therapy that uses art materials, such as paints, chalk and markers.

Art therapy combines traditional psychotherapeutic theories and techniques with an understanding of the psychological aspects of the creative process, especially the affective properties of the different art materials.

As a mental health profession, art therapy is employed in many clinical settings with diverse populations.

Art therapy can be found in non-clinical settings as well, such as in art studios and in workshops that focus on creativity development.

Art therapists work with children, adolescents, and adults and provide services to individuals, couples, families, groups, and communities.

According to the American Art Therapy Association, art therapy is based on the belief that the creative process involved in making art is on a basic level healing and life-enhancing.

Art therapists use the creative process and the issues that come up during art therapy to help their clients increase insight and judgment, cope better with stress, work through traumatic experiences, increase cognitive abilities, have better relationships with family and friends, and to just be able to enjoy the life-affirming pleasures of the creative experience.

The term art therapist is reserved for those that are professionals trained in both art and therapy and hold a master's degree in art therapy or a related field.

Purpose of Art Therapy: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_Therapy#Purpose_of_Art_Therapy

The purpose of art therapy is much the same as in any other psychotherapeutic modality, to improve or maintain mental health and emotional well- being.

But whereas some of the other expressive therapies utilize the performing arts for expressive purposes, art therapy generally utilizes drawing, painting, sculpture, photography, and other forms of visual art expression.

For that reason art therapists are trained to recognize the nonverbal symbols and metaphors that are communicated within the creative process, symbols and metaphors which might be difficult to express in words or in other modalities.

By helping their clients to discover what underlying thoughts and feelings are being communicated in the artwork and what it means to them, it is hoped that clients will not only gain insight and judgment, but perhaps develop a better understanding of themselves and the way they relate to the people around them.

According to Ed Beeson, \"Art therapists stress that it is not their job to interpret or read meaning into patients’ art\"(2006).

An List Of: Talking Therapies/Counselling For Mental Health/Depression: Attack therapy: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack_therapy

Attack therapy is a controversial type of psychotherapy evolved from ventilation therapy.

The patient undergoing attack therapy is humiliated, abused and denunciated by a therapist, or by fellow patients during group therapy.[1]

Methodology: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack_therapy#Methodology

Attack therapy can be particularly problematic when the group members are captive, and not allowed to leave during the sessions.[2]

In Group Psychotherapy with Addicted Populations , Flores notes that attack therapy can take place when individuals are psychologically intimidated in a confrontational atmosphere.[3]

In her book Help at Any Cost, Maia Szalavitz writes that attack therapy can include the tactics of isolation, and rigid imposition of rules, which later leads to a restoration of limited permissive freedom, and an acknowledgement of those that did comply with the strict rules.[4]

Psychologist Donald Eisner writes in The Death of Psychotherapy that attack therapy: \"attempts to tear down the patient's defenses by extreme verbal or physical measures.\"[5]

Tudor describes attack therapy in Group Counselling, writing that the individual is ridiculed in front of others, and cross-examined and questioned about their personal behavior patterns.[6]

According to Maran's book Dirty, attack therapy can take place in \"all-night encounter groups and daily interactions.\"[7]

Monti, Colby, and O'Leary write in Adolescents, Alcohol, and Substance Abuse that in attack therapy, there was a movement to: \"tear them down in order to build them up\", referring to a methodology of tearing down the individual ego in order to then educate the individual in the inherent thought-patterns of the group and the group leader.[8]

In Concise Encyclopedia of Psychology, Corsini and Auerbach note that attack therapy puts an emphasis on the expression of anger by each individual.[9]

One Nation Under Therapy by Satel and Sommers characterized attack therapy as among the \"more bizarre expressive therapies\", and put it in the same category as Primal Scream, Nude Encounter, and Rolfing.[10]

In Social Problems, Coleman and Cressey write that in attack therapy, one individual is criticized and \"torn down\" by the rest of the larger group.