Psychotherapeutic techniques

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We list here a number of techniques used in psychotherapy presented outside their theoretical frameworks. Eclectic and integrative psychotherapists draw from this list on a pragmatic basis, combining the individual strategies as needed and developing a repetoire of skills dr.wn from across theoretical boundaries.

• Active Listening

• Addressing existential factors

• Activity scheduling

• Animal assisted therapy

• Autogenic training

• Behavioral analysis

• Behavioral contracting

• Catharsis

• Centering

• Clarification

• Cognitive interventions
  • A-B-C-D Analysis
  • Disputation
  • Desibels
  • Redecision work
  • Cognitive restructuring
  • Thought stopping
  • Positive self-talk
  • Symptom prescription
  • Resisting Tx change

• Cotherapy

• Dream analysis

• Developing altruism

• Empathising

• Empowerment

• Empty chair technique

• Externalising and personifying

• Free association

• Goal setting

• Guided imagery

• History taking

• Increase self understanding

• Increase insight

• Increase self-esteem

• Increasing personal effectiveness

• Increasing motivation

• Instillation of hope

• Interpretation

• Logic and argument in clinical practice

• Mindfulness

• Mirroring

• Modelling to increase identification

• Mutual storytelling

• Paradoxical techniques, including Paradoxical intention

• Problem-solving

• Reassurance

• Reframing

• Relaxation therapy

• Roleplay

• Self help techniques

• Self strengthening strategies

• Self talk

• Socratic questioning in therapy

• Therapy homework

• Universalising

• Working in the transference

• Working through

Basic underlying knowledge base

• Argument
• Attitude change
• Persuasion
• Rhetoric

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See also

• Age regression
• Assessment of clinical skills
• Client centred therapy
• Taxonomies -defences, schemas, snags etc
• Specific treatment techniques- social skills, anger management etc
• Group therapy strategies
• Conjoint therapy
• Creative arts therapy
• Interpersonal psychotherapy
• List of psychotherapies
• Poetry therapy
• Primal therapy
• Psychotherapeutic neutrality
• Twelve step programmes
• Wilderness experiences

Additional material

Papers

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