
Treatment Approaches
Cognitive and Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
A practical, short-term form of psychotherapy which helps people to examine how they make sense of what is happening around them and how these perceptions affect the way they feel. Becoming aware of inaccurate or negative thinking, a person can view challenging situations more clearly and respond to them in a more effective way.
Narrative Therapy
A therapeutic approach that helps individuals separate themselves from their problems by re-authoring their life stories. It views clients as the experts of their own lives and encourages them to reframe negative narratives into more empowering ones.
Solution-Focused Brief Therapy
A short-term goal-focused evidence-based therapeutic approach, which incorporates positive psychology principles and practices, and which helps clients change by constructing solutions rather than focusing on problems. In the most basic sense, SFBT is a hope friendly, positive emotion eliciting, future-oriented vehicle for formulating, motivating, achieving, and sustaining desired behavioural change.
Dialectical Behavioural Therapy (DBT)
DBT combines standard cognitive - behavioural techniques for emotion regulation and reality-testing with concepts of distress tolerance, acceptance, and mindful awareness largely derived from contemplative meditative practice.
These approaches can be helpful in treating mental health disorders, and
can also be helpful for anyone who wants to learn how to better manage stressful life situations, such as:
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Depression
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Anxiety Disorders
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Panic Disorder
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Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
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Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
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Health Anxiety
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Specific Phobias
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Eating Disorders
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Addictions
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Identify ways to manage emotions
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Resolve relationship conflicts and learn better ways to communicate
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Deal with parenting challenges
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Cope with crisis, illness, grief, loss and death
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Overcome emotional trauma related to abuse or violence
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Work on self-esteem issues
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Manage setting and reaching goals
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Resolve job or career issues