Psychotherapy of support
The term of psychotherapy of support defines a therapeutic objective does not return to a clearly definite category of psychological cures .
Psychotherapy is distinguished from psychotherapies having for goal a basic work, aiming at modifying the personality, like the psychoanalytical Psychothérapie. The objective will be simply to help the person to support her Symptôme general S or its problems; thus this form of psychotherapy aims at bringing a moral support.
It is not a question of a cognitivo-behavioral therapy, but the cognitive therapies have sometimes the common point to seek the adapatation with the symptom rather than a major modification.
It is also necessary potentionnellement to distinguish psychotherapy from support of the psychological assistance given in the urgency to the victims of a traumatic event .
See too
- Psychiatry, Psychology, Psychoanalysis, cognitive Psychology
- Symptom, Mental disease
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