This treatment focuses on skills in meeting other people, starting and maintaining conversations, acting effectively in a variety of social situations, and starting and strengthening relationships. Social skills training treatment can be used with a number of psychological problems such as depression and anxiety, which can inhibit social interaction and interfere with the learning ofContinue reading “Social Skills Training in Individual Therapy”
Category Archives: Self esteem
Cognitive Restructuring
Our emotions, thoughts, and behavior are inextricably linked. When any one of these components is altered, it affects all the others in the system. When people are depressed or anxious, usually thoughts, behavior, and emotion are in a negative feedback loop, feeding off one another, and maintaining the negative mood state. Cognitive restructuring is aContinue reading “Cognitive Restructuring”
Assertiveness training
Definition Assertiveness training is a form of behavior therapy designed to help people stand up for themselves—to empower themselves, in more contemporary terms. Assertiveness is a response that seeks to maintain an appropriate balance between passivity and aggression. Assertive responses promote fairness and equality in human interactions, based on a positive sense of respect for selfContinue reading “Assertiveness training”
Problem-Solving Therapy
Problem-solving therapy is a treatment that helps people take action in their lives, helping them cope with difficulties, and teaching them to proactively solve their problems. Unlike traditional psychotherapy, problem-solving therapy makes use of cognitive and behavioral interventions, helping people directly work on life’s challenges. Problem-solving therapy can help with achieving goals, finding purpose, reducing depression,Continue reading “Problem-Solving Therapy”
Behavioral Activation
There are many different theories on treating depression. Behavioral Activation is a CBT treatment for depression that helps people understand environmental causes of their depression, and targets behaviors that maintain or worsen the depression. Life events, including loss, trauma, biological predispositions to depression, and the day-to-day hassles of life, can result in people experiencing reducedContinue reading “Behavioral Activation”
Build Self-esteem
Self-esteem is a term that really refers to how we think about ourselves. In a sense, it is the aggregate of all of the thoughts that run through our mind when thinking about our confidence in our abilities. When people talk about good self-esteem, what they’re really talking about is a healthy level of self-confidence. Poor self-esteemContinue reading “Build Self-esteem”
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