An List Of: Talking Therapies/Counselling

An List Of: Talking Therapies/Counselling For Mental Health/Depression: Existential psychotherapy: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Existential_therapy (This article is missing citations or needs footnotes)

Existential Psychotherapy is partly based on the existential belief that human beings are alone in the world.

This aloneness leads to feelings of meaninglessness which can be overcome only by creating one's own values and meanings.

We have the power to create because we have the freedom to choose.

In making our own choices we assume full responsibility for the results and blame no one but ourselves if the result is less than what was desired.

The psychotherapist helps his or her patients/clients along this path: to discover why the patient/client is overburdened by the anxieties of aloneness and meaninglessness, to find new and better ways to manage these anxieties, to make new and healthy choices, and to emerge from therapy as a free and sound human being.

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An List Of: Talking Therapies/Counselling For Mental Health/Depression: Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exposure_and_response_prevention

Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP) is a treatment method available from behavioral psychologists and cognitive-behavioral therapists for a variety of anxiety disorders, especially Obsessive Compulsive Disorder.

It is an example of an Exposure Therapy, with the addition of Response Prevention.

The method is predicated on the idea that a therapeutic effect is achieved as subjects confront their fears and discontinue their escape response.

An example would be of a person who repeatedly checks light switches to make sure they're turned off.

They would carry out a program of exposure to their feared stimulus (leaving lights switched on) while refusing to engage in any safety behaviors.

It differs from Exposure Therapy for phobia in that the resolution to refrain from the avoidance response is to be maintained at all times and not just during specific practice sessions.

Thus, not only does the subject experience habituation to the feared stimulus, they also practise a fear-incompatible behavioral response to the stimulus.

Recent results (Lovell et al, see below) indicate that ERP can be carried out effectively with minimal face-to-face contact between the therapist and the subject.

Please refer to the Obsessive Compulsive Disorder article for elaboration on ERP and its effectiveness.

An List Of: Talking Therapies/Counselling For Mental Health/Depression: Expressive Therapy: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expressive_therapy

Expressive Therapy, also known as creative arts therapy, is the intentional use of the creative arts as a form of therapy.

Unlike traditional art expression, the process of creation is emphasized rather than the final aesthetic product.

Expressive therapy works under the assumption that through use of imagination and the various forms of creative expression, humans can heal. Most forms of creative expression have an equivalent therapeutic discipline:

*Art Therapy - The use of painting, drawing, sculpture and other forms of art as therapy: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_therapy

*Dance Therapy - The use of kinesthetic expression as therapy: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dance_therapy

*Drama Therapy - The use of theater tools and improvisation as therapyhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drama_therapy Includes Psychodrama: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychodrama

*Music Therapy - The use of listening, playing and personalizing music as therapy: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_therapy

*Play Therapy - The use of playing with toys, observing play as therapy: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Play_therapy Includes sandtray therapy: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandtray_therapy

*Writing therapy - The use of the written word, generated and historical as therapy. Includes poetry therapy and Bibliotherapy.

Expressive therapists are often known as dance therapists, art therapists, music therapists, drama therapists and as other names based on their choice of primary artistic expression, also known as their modality.

Usually, being an expressive therapist is a masters level clinician, often coupled with other liscensure or certification.

In common, all expressive therapists share the belief that it is through creative expression and the tapping of the imagination a person can examine the body, feelings, emotions and his or her thought process.

Although often separated by the form of creative art, some expressive therapists consider themselves intermodal, using expression in general, rather than a specific discipline to treat clients, altering their approach based on the clients' needs, or through using multiple forms of expression with the same client to aid with deeper exploration.

Expressive therapists work with a wide variety of populations in a wide variety of environments.

They have worked in areas such as medical illness, grief, educational and behavioral problems, emotional issues, and even criminal behavior.

There is a certification process for the \"Certified Expressive Therapist\", and the \"Certified Expressive Arts Therapist\", and the \"Expressive Therapist Registered\", as well as certifications within each of the specific disciplines.

Significant contributors to this field include Shaun McNiff, Paolo Knill, Steve Ross, as well as Stephen and Ellen Levine.

An List Of: Talking Therapies/Counselling For Mental Health/Depression: Family Constellations: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_Constellations

Family Constellations is a therapeutic method developed by Bert Hellinger and practised by psychologists, psychiatrists psychotherapists and alternative practitioners.

Its objective is to release profound tensions within and between people.

Those tensions may lie in a personal or professional context.

An List Of: Talking Therapies/Counselling For Mental Health/Depression: (This article or section deals primarily with the United States and does not represent a worldwide view of the subject): Family Therapy: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_therapy

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 tends to view these in terms of the systems of interaction between family members.

It emphasizes family relationships as an important factor in psychological health.

As such, family problems have been seen to arise as an emergent property of systemic interactions, rather than to be blamed on individual members.

Marriage and Family Therapists (MFTs) are the most specifically trained in this type of psychotherapy.

Family therapists may focus more on how patterns of interaction maintain the problem rather than trying to identify the cause, as this can be experienced as blaming by some families.

It assumes that the family as a whole is larger than the sum of its parts.

Family therapy may also be used to draw upon the strengths of a social network to help address a problem that may be completely externally caused rather than created or maintained by the family.

Family therapy practitioners come from a range of professional backgrounds, and some are specifically qualified or licensed/registered in family therapy (licensing is not required in some jurisdictions and requirements vary from place to place).

In the UK, family therapists are usually psychologists, nurses, psychotherapists, social workers, or counselors who have done further training in family therapy, either a diploma or an M.Sc.; however, in the U.S., there is a specific license as a Marriage and Family therapist.

Family therapy has been used effectively where families, and or individuals in those families experience or suffer:

*serious psychological disorders (e.g. schizophrenia, anxiety, depression, personality disorders, conduct disorders, ADHD, addictions and eating disorders);

*interactional and transitional crises in a family’s life cycle (e.g. conflict, estrangement, divorce, child and adolescent issues);

*as a support of other psychotherapies and medication.

(This article or section deals primarily with the United States and does not represent a worldwide view of the subject)

An List Of: Talking Therapies/Counselling For Mental Health/Depression: Feminist Therapy: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feminist_therapy

Feminist Therapy is a set of related therapies arising from the disparity between the origin of most psychological theories and the majority of people seeking counseling being female.

It focuses on societal, cultural, and political causes and solutions to issues faced in the counseling process.

It openly encourages the client to participate in the world in a more social and political way.

Shared concepts in feminist therapy: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feminist_therapy#S..._in_feminist_therapy

Feminist therapy has emerged from the recognition that much of human suffering is a result of the unequal distribution of power in society, particularly based upon gender, race and ethnicity, class, dis/ability, sexual orientation, and so forth.

These power differentials have been a factor in direct injuries such as sexual assault as well as indirect ones such as limited options.

A feminist approach implies a commitment to social change.

The practice of feminist therapy is thus politicized in both its theoretical understanding of the causes of injury as well as in its enactment.

A collaborative and respectful working relationship is therefore at the foundation of feminist therapy.

*The personal is political

*Personal and social identities are interdependent

*Conventional distress and \"mental illness\" concepts are challenged

*The role of oppression is central

*The counseling relationship is egalitarian

*Women's perspectives are valued