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Supportive Psychotherapy

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Sajan Raghavan
₹5,000.00
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Supportive psychotherapy is a psychotherapeutic approach which integrates components from various schools of psychotherapy to provide therapeutic support including from psychodynamic, cognitive-behavioural, and interpersonal conceptual models and techniques.

Supportive psychotherapy aims to reduce or to relieve the intensity of manifested or presenting symptoms, distress or disability. It also reduces the extent of behavioural disruptions caused by the patient’s psychic conflicts or disturbances. The objective of the therapist is to reinforce the patient’s healthy and adaptive patterns of thought behaviours to reduce the intrapsychic conflicts that produce symptoms of mental disorders. 

Unlike in psychoanalysis, in which the analyst works to maintain a neutral demeanour as a “blank canvas” for transference, in supportive therapy, the therapist engages in a fully emotional, encouraging, and supportive relationship with the patient as a method of furthering healthy defence mechanisms, especially in the context of interpersonal relationships.

Applications

Supportive psychotherapy has been used for patients suffering from severe cases of addiction as well as bulimia nervosa, stress and other mental illnesses. It is used as initial therapy, to be reduced and not to be prolonged, in situations or periods where there is a lack of means for a systematic approach or behaviourism. Examples of such situations include:

  • Critical Negotiations
  • Volatile but unavoidable everyday life or decisive situations
  • Compromises (to introduce at least minimal operational, efficient relationship conditions) in long term, engaged relationships, based on lasting agreements

Note: This course is adapted and excerpted from “Basic Principles of Supportive Psychotherapy” American Psychiatric Press Inc

Course Features

  • Lectures 16
  • Quizzes 0
  • Duration 50 hours
  • Skill level All levels
  • Language English
  • Students 0
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  • Assessments Self
Supportive Psychotherapy
  • Fundamentals of Supportive Psychotherapy 4

    • Lecture1.1
      What is Supportive Psychotherapy?
    • Lecture1.2
      Therapeutic Alliance
    • Lecture1.3
      Boundaries
    • Lecture1.4
      Exceptions to dealing with Unconscious Conflicts
  • Techniques of Supportive Psychotherapy 7

    • Lecture2.1
      Praise
    • Lecture2.2
      Reassurance
    • Lecture2.3
      Normalizing
    • Lecture2.4
      Encouragement
    • Lecture2.5
      Reframing
    • Lecture2.6
      Advise and Teaching
    • Lecture2.7
      Language
  • Targets of Supportive Psychotherapy 5

    • Lecture3.1
      Self Esteem
    • Lecture3.2
      Change
    • Lecture3.3
      Daily Life
    • Lecture3.4
      Relationships
    • Lecture3.5
      Relapse Prevention
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Sajan Raghavan
Sajan is a Marshall Goldsmith Certified Leadership Coach. He has over over 30 years of experience in designing, delivering and managing, client-focused talent management strategies. He has worked in multiple domains including over 10 years in the Indian Air Force plus in financial services and telecom. He has over 15 years of international work experience during which he was Country Manager for XpertLearning the pioneer digital learning and talent management consultant based in the UAE where his work including consulting for CXOs to help them define, operate and optimize their talent management investments with a range of technology solutions. He has an MBA in HR, is a member of Achology the academy of modern applied psychology, from where he has various certifications in Counselling, Coaching, CBT and other disciplines. He is passionate about service to the community in the area of mental health and has a certificate from Copenhagen Business school on Social Entrepreneurship. He presently looks after Sustainability and Digital Transformation for Mental Health Action Trust, an Ashoka an NGO based out of Kerala, India, founded by Ashoka Fellow Dr.Manoj Kumar. MHAT offers recovery-oriented mental health care to the poorest of the poor.
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