What are the core beliefs of psychotherapy?

Answer 1

It's not a very specific question as there are many different types of psychotherapy. Fundamentally all forms of therapy assume that talking about a persons problems, in a warm, genuinely caring environment, can help to alleviate distress. The belief is that giving people new perspectives can help them to understand their problems differently, this is believed to be therapeutic. The generally accepted core beliefs and aims of psychotherapy are that it will: * Increase insight or improve understanding of one's own mental state. This can range from simply knowing one's strengths and weaknesses to understanding that symptoms are signs of a mental illness and to deep awareness and acceptance of inner feelings. * Resolve disabling conflicts, or work to create a peaceful and positive settlement of emotional struggles that stop a person from living a reasonably happy and productive life. * Increase acceptance of self by developing a more realistic and positive appraisal of the person's strengths and abilities. * Develop improved and more efficient and successful means of dealing with problems so that the patient can find solutions or means of coping with them. * Produce an overall strengthening of ego structure, or sense of self, so that normal, healthy means of coping with life situations can be called upon and used as needed. There are no definitive studies proving that all five of these goals are consistently realized, but psychotherapy in one form or other is a component of nearly all of both in-patient and community based psychiatric treatment programs.bl bal bla bla bala bal abla bal bala bal bala