CHAPTER  17

Psychologically Based Therapies

Chapter 17 describes in some detail the various psychological treatment approaches that are employed to treat the types of problems discussed in earlier chapters. Psychologically based therapies, according to the text, may attempt to change maladaptive behavior, minimize or eliminate stressful environmental conditions, reduce negative affect, improve interpersonal competencies, resolve personal conflicts, modify inaccurate self-thoughts, and/or improve self-imafe. There are a wide variety of techniques available, and often completely different approaches have been developed for the same problem behavior. These various approaches to treatment are all outgrowths ob the different models of psychopathology described earlier.

This chapter covers the major psychological therapies: psychodynamic therapies, behavior therapy, cognitive and cognitive-behavior therapies, humanistic-experiential therapies, as well as group, couples, and family therapies. Despite the large number of therapies, no single approach to psychotherapy has yet proven capable of handling the entire range of problems seen clinically. Consequently, the inclination to identify strongly with one approach or another is decreasing. Today, many therapists are familiar with a variety of techniques chosen from several therapeutic approaches and use them depending on the type of problems the client is having.

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