PSYCHOTHERAPISTS

Psychotherapists



Psychotherapists Values Related to the Helping Profession

Introduction

Psychotherapy is concern with any form of therapeutic interaction or treatment contracted between a trained professional, and patient. This patient can be a family, couple or a group. The natures of the problems that addressed are psychological. It focused on helping individuals cure and offer more convenient ways in order to deal with the issues surrounding in the life. It is very supportive process during the difficult period or stress. However, when an individual struggling with his life, relationship, mental health or any work issue results in an enormous deal of pain, more than few days' psychotherapy is the best way to deal with it.

Discussion

As I was reading this chapter, I enjoyed this chapter. Initially the author was talking about the values and their role in the work. The concept of value is concern with the desirable that influences the selection from available means, mode and end of action. Value is something which is code or standard set previously that has some persistence during the duration. Valuing something may differ from person to person. Therapists cannot force or impose their values on the patient or client. However, they can influence them through different means (Watson, 1958).

The effort to describe psychotherapy as a technology or science would appear to eliminate values the traditional process. The therapist stress that their treatment based purely on the complex treatment so no moral issues will arise. However, further I came across that progress in the development of new and more efficient techniques of psychotherapy. Traditional techniques based on the premise that anxious individuals unrealistically overestimate negative outcomes, which leads to avoidance and other maladaptive coping behaviors. Restructuring distortions in perceptions, combined with exposure-based therapies, therefore, it allows individuals to overcome anxiety through using more adaptive thinking, habituation, and decatastrophization of feared predictions.

Cognitive-behavior therapy (CBT), known as cognitive therapy (CT), based on the apparent cognitive model that links cognitions, emotions, and behaviors such that cognitions shape behaviors and emotions, and unrealistic cognitions can lead to inappropriate emotions and behaviors. CT aims to reduce test anxiety by identifying and restructuring partial or maladaptive cognitions, such as those about the inevitability and complex consequences of failure. In addition, CT programs for education anxiety typically include relaxation techniques, such as deep breathing and guided imagery. Several studies have indicated that interventions based on CT principles cause a decrease in test anxiety. However, meta-analyses suggest that the full CT set for research anxiety was no better or was less effective than behavioral-only treatments. Therefore, it is not clear whether the cognitive components of CT are specifically useful (Stmupp H., 1980).

Moreover, almost none of the studies examining CT principles have used measurements that can capture changes in real-world performance. Many studies examining CT's effects on test anxiety rely on analogue measures of performance, such as tests of general reasoning, speed tests with numbers, or problem-solving tasks; none of these studies revealed benefits to CT over behavioral-only (e.g., modeling, exposure) or control treatment conditions on performance ...