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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"psychodynamic psychotherapy"”.
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Assessment of children for brief psychodynamic psychotherapy : training implications
… for the assessment of children for short-term psychodynamic psychotherapy, with a particular emphasis on the training of child therapists. For this purpose the literature on brief child psychotherapy is reviewed, and selection criteria mentioned in the literature are collated and summarized. …
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The psychodynamic psychotherapy of a male transvestite : a case study
… study provides a description of selected core psychodynamic issues pertinent to a male transvestite patient. Case material from an ongoing 11 month psychodynamically-oriented psychotherapy is used for illustrative purposes. The theoretical roles of the 'core complex', castration anxiety; …
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Meeting Needs with Therapy: Refugee and Therapist Experiences of Psychodynamic Psychotherapy
… of the resources available to them in the UKis psychodynamic psychotherapy. This study was the first of its kind to explore the experience of psychodynamic psychotherapy from the perspective of refugee and asylum seeker clients, and therapists working with those populations. Using a qualitative …
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The constellation of the archetypal feminine : a psychic process essential to psychodynamic psychotherapy
… to explore and demonstrate the necessity for a psychodynamic psychotherapy which embodies and thus evokes the qualities of the Archetypal Feminine. C.G. Jung's concept of the coniunctio, or union of psychic opposites, forms the central theoretical premise on which the study is based. It is with …
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Clients' Experience of Effective Psychoanalytic-Psychodynamic Psychotherapy for Major Depression: An Empirical Phenomenological Study
Although there is sufficient evidence that psychodynamic therapy for depression is effective, there is no research documenting the qualities of experience in effective psychodynamic therapy for depression. To address this lack, this study aimed to investigate clients' experiences of both the …
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Psichodinaminės psichoterapijos veiksmingumas: ilgalaikių psichoterapijos klientų perspektyva /
Attending psychotherapy is becoming an increasingly common practice, yet there is a lack of research on the effectiveness of psychotherapy from the clients' perspective. Such studies reduce the gap between scientific and practical activities. The bachelor's thesis presents a study aimed at …
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Childhood depression, expressed emotion and psychotherapy : associations and interactions
… with the pursuit of ascertaining the efficacy of psychodynamic psychotherapy in the treatment of childhood depression. Additionally, it is concerned with exploring possible associations between childhood depression and expressed emotion and whether expressed emotion, changes in relation to changes …
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Understanding Attitude Towards Help Seeking in Predicting Preference for Psychotherapeutic Orientation
… people’s dispositional qualities predict their psychotherapy preferences. Additionally, this study examined the extent to which people’s attitude toward seeking professional psychological help would predict their psychotherapy preferences above and beyond their dispositional characteristics.</p> …
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A clinical case study of some aspects of the significance of the father in the process of separation-individuation
In this study, recent psychodynamic literature on some aspects of the significance of the father in psychological development, is reviewed. Psychoanalytic and analytical perspectives on the father are considered, with particular reference to the father's role in preoedipal development of the …
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An Exploration of the Relation Between Psychological Functioning and Reactions to Global Climate Change for Late Adolescents in New York City
… The findings indicate the potential utility of psychodynamic psychotherapy for supporting adolescents through this vulnerable phase, and offer reflections on climate change as one of the many significant changes to the ecological, technological, and cultural landscapes that are influencing the …
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A Study of the Relationship between Borderline-dysregulated Personality and Treatment-resistant Depression in the Course of the TADS Randomised Controlled Trial
… randomised controlled trial comparing Long Term Psychodynamic Psychotherapy (LTPP) to Treatment as Usual (TAU) for 129 patients whose depression has not been successfully treated by at least two previous interventions. The author of this project took part in rating all patients with the …
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What Process Works For Whom: Individual Differences And The Impact Of Therapy Techniques And Treatment Mechanisms
While psychotherapy treatment manuals define the broad structure and targets of a therapy, therapists must decide how to implement treatments with a specific patient. Yet, patients are heterogeneous even within a disorder class, and there is little systematic research to guide a therapist to make …
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The Characteristics and Functions of Humor in Psychotherapy: A Qualitative Study
Literature on humor in psychotherapy has been strongly influenced by a debate on whether therapists should engage in humor with clients. Many authors urge caution and are suspicious of humor's use by therapists. Others argue that humor is helpful in therapy and illustrate its uses through clinical …
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Psyche in soma: an investigation of the assimilation of conflicts in in two psychotherapy clients with functional abdominal pain
… case studies of the processes and outcomes of psychodynamic psychotherapy involving clients with chronic abdominal pain. A main objective of the study was to see how change might be experienced at psychological and somatic levels, and how findings might best fit into a model of biopsychosocial …
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The development and validation of a cognitive-behavioural measure of psychological mindedness.
The current work provided a new cognitive-behavioural conceptualisation of the construct, defining psychological mindedness as 'the ability to identify one’s thoughts, emotions, and behaviours, and see connections between them’. As such, this new definition was adopted for the purposes of …
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A cross-national study of childhood autism
… therapy (Johnson and Myer, 2007) and psychotherapy (Alvarez et al, 1999). There are a number of intervention approaches for children with autism that have been developed, however none have been universally accepted as being the most effective (Farrell et al, 2005). As a result, parents …
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Interventions That Move: Characterizing the Language of Therapist Responses to High Patient Arousal
… inviting iterative applications in the study of psychotherapy process.</p>
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