An List Of: Talking Therapies/Counselling

An List Of: Talking Therapies/Counselling For Mental Health/Depression: Person-Centered Therapy (PCT): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Person-centered_psychotherapy

Person-Centered Therapy (PCT), also known as Client-centered therapy, was developed by the humanist psychologist Carl Rogers in the 1940s and 1950s.

He referred to it as counseling rather than psychotherapy.

The basic elements of Carl Rogers' new way of therapy was to have a more personal relationship with the patient to help the patient reach a state of realization that they can help themselves.

He did this by pushing the patient towards growth, great stress on the immediate situation rather than the past.

This way the person is able to use the therapy as a way to reach a better sense of self, rather than living in an irrational world.

Person-centered therapy is used to help a person achieve personal growth and or come to terms with a specific event or problem they are having.

PCT is based on the principle of talking therapy and is a non-directive approach.

The therapist encourages the patient to express their feelings and does not suggest how the person might wish to change, but by listening and then mirroring back what the patient reveals to them, helps them to explore and understand their feelings for themselves.

The patient is then able to decide what kind of changes they would like to make and can achieve personal growth.

Although this technique has been criticized by some for its lack of structure and set method it has proved to be a hugely effective and popular treatment.

PCT is predominantly used by psychologists and counselors in psychotherapy.

An List Of: Talking Therapies/Counselling For Mental Health/Depression: Personal Construct Psychology (PCP): (It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Personal construct theory: Discuss):

Personal Construct Psychology (PCP): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_construct_psychology

Personal Construct Psychology (PCP) is a theory of personality developed by the American psychologist George Kelly in the 1950s.

From the theory, Kelly derived a psychotherapy approach and also a technique called The Repertory Grid Interview that helped his patients to uncover their own \"constructs\" (defined later) with minimal intervention or interpretation by the therapist.

The Repertory Grid was later adapted for various uses within organizations, including decision-making and interpretation of other people's world-views.

The UK Council for Psychotherapy, a regulatory body, classifies PCP therapy under Experiential Constructivism.

(It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Personal construct theory: Discuss).

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

Play Therapy is generally employed with children ages 3 to 11, play provides a way for children to express their experiences and feelings through a natural, self-guided, self-healing process.

As children’s experiences and knowledges are often communicated through play, it becomes an important vehicle for them know and accept themselves and others.

Play Therapy is the systematic use of a theoretical model to establish an interpersonal process wherein play therapists use the therapeutic powers of play to help clients prevent or resolve psychosocial challenges and achieve optimal growth and development.

A working definition might be a form of counseling or psychotherapy that therapeutically engages the power of play to communicate with and help people, especially children, to engender optimal integration and individuation.

Play Therapy is often used as tool of diagnosis.

A play therapist observes a client playing with toys (play-houses, pets, dolls, etc) to determine the cause of the disturbed behaviour.

The objects and patterns of play, as well as the willingness to interact with the therapist can be used to understand the underlying rationale for behavior both inside and outside the session.

According to the psychodynamic view, people (especially children) will engage in play behaviour in order to work through their interior obfuscations and anxieties.

In this way play therapy can be used as a self-help mechanism, as long as children are allowed time for 'free play' or 'unstructured play'.

From a developmental point of view, play has been determined to be an essential component of healthy child development.

Play has been directly linked to cognitive development.

One approach to treatment, is for play therapists use a type of systematic desensitization or relearning therapy to change the disturbing behaviour, either systematically or in less formal social settings.

These processes are normally used with children, but are also applied with other pre-verbal, non-verbal, or verbally-impaired persons, such as slow-learners, brain-injured or drug-affected persons.

Mature adults usually need much \"group permission\" before indulging in the relaxed spontaneity of play therapy, so a very skilled group worker is needed to deal with such guarded individuals.

Many mature adults find that \"child's play\" is so difficult and taboo, that most experienced group workers need specially tailored \"play\" strategies to reach them.

Competent adult-group workers will use these play strategies to enable more unguarded spontaneity to develop in the non-childish student.

An List Of: Talking Therapies/Counselling For Mental Health/Depression: Positive Psychology: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positive_psychology

Positive Psychology is a relatively young branch of psychology that \"studies the strengths and virtues that enable individuals and communities to thrive.\"[1] People have been discussing the question of human happiness since at least Ancient Greece.[2]

Psychology has been criticized (Seligman, 2002) as primarily dedicated to addressing mental illness rather than mental \"wellness\".

Several humanistic psychologists—such as Abraham Maslow, Carl Rogers, and Erich Fromm—developed successful theories and practices that involved human happiness despite there being a lack of solid empirical evidence at the time behind their work, and especially that of their successors, who chose to emphasize phenomenology and individual case histories.[3]

Current empirical researchers in this subfield include Donald Clifton, Albert Bandura, Martin Seligman, Ed Diener, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, C. R. Snyder, Christopher Peterson, Shelley Taylor, Barbara Fredrickson, Charles S. Carver, Michael F. Scheier, and Jonathan Haidt.

An List Of: Talking Therapies/Counselling For Mental Health/Depression: Positive Psychotherapy: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positive_psychotherapy

Positive Psychotherapy is a psychodynamic method of psychotherapy founded by Dr. Nossrat Peseschkian in the early 1970s in Germany.

It is based on a humanistic conception of man, and has an integral and holistic approach.

It is today spread in many countries.

The main center is based in Wiesbaden, Germany.

An List Of: Talking Therapies/Counselling For Mental Health/Depression: Psychotherapeutic Postural Integration (PPI): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postural_Integration

Psychotherapeutic Postural Integration (PPI) is a wider development of Postural integration (PI), an alternative body-psychotherapy method, which attempts to help individuals to become aware of themselves in their body and empowering them to change their \"bodymind\" - their bodies, their emotions and attitudes.

At a practical level, PPI is an active therapy in which the patient/client and practitioner (psychotherapist) interact to release blocked energy and to guide the development of awareness in both, thus enabling clients to increase their sense of well-being, their capacity to feel, their ability to express themselves, to develop their self-awareness and consciousness.

It aims to restore unity of tissue, feeling and awareness by a direct manual, deep softening and reorganization of the myofascia which envelopes and coordinates the entire muscular system while simultaneously bringing together gestalt therapy, emotional release and expression, breathwork, movement awareness disciplines and bodymind drama into a single framework.

Postural Integration (PI) was originally developed in the 1960's by Jack Painter, Ph.D., (°1933) a former Professor at the University of Miami after many years of self-exploration in the fields of humanistic psychology, deep massage, acupressure and the Five Elements system, gestalt therapy, but especially with Reichian therapy in combination with the work and theories of Ida Rolf.

Postural Integration is taught and practiced in Europe, USA, Canada, Mexico, South Africa and Australia and is organized within the International Council of PsychoCorporal Integration Trainers (ICPIT).