Supportive Therapy Model and Behavior Deviation
Supportive Therapy Model
Supportive Therapy is a relatively new mode of psychotherapy that is widely used in hospital and community based psychiatric treatment settings. It differs from other models in that it is not dependent on any overriding concepts or theory. Instead, it used many psychodynamic theories to understand how people change. The aims of supportive psychotherapy include the following.
Role of nurses according to this model is to assist clients in identifying coping owned and used by the client. Therapists attempt to establish warm relationships and empathetic with the client to prepare clients adaptive coping.
View of Behavior Deviation
Supportive therapist are psycho dynamically based and they describe behavioral deviations as neurotic borderline, or psychotic. They subscribe to the concept of id, ego, and super ego and emphasize the important role of psychological defenses in adaptive functioning. Compared with other models of psychiatric treatment, however, their focus is more behavior oriented. They emphasize current biopsychosocial coping response and the person’s ability to use available coping resources.
Supportive Therapy is a relatively new mode of psychotherapy that is widely used in hospital and community based psychiatric treatment settings. It differs from other models in that it is not dependent on any overriding concepts or theory. Instead, it used many psychodynamic theories to understand how people change. The aims of supportive psychotherapy include the following.
- Promote a supportive patient-therapist relationship
- Enhance patient’s strengths, Coping skills, and maladaptive coping responses
- Reduce the patient’s subjective distress and maladaptive coping responses
- Help the patient achieve the greatest independence possible based on the specific psychiatric or physical illness
- Foster the greatest amount of autonomy in treatment decisions with the patient
Role of nurses according to this model is to assist clients in identifying coping owned and used by the client. Therapists attempt to establish warm relationships and empathetic with the client to prepare clients adaptive coping.
View of Behavior Deviation
Supportive therapist are psycho dynamically based and they describe behavioral deviations as neurotic borderline, or psychotic. They subscribe to the concept of id, ego, and super ego and emphasize the important role of psychological defenses in adaptive functioning. Compared with other models of psychiatric treatment, however, their focus is more behavior oriented. They emphasize current biopsychosocial coping response and the person’s ability to use available coping resources.
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