Relationship+Therapy

=toc= = Definition: = Therapies that attempt to improve clients' interpersonal relationships or create new relationships to support clients' efforts to address psychological problems. Gen Psych, Chapter 13, Pg. 412

Examples:

 * **Family Therapy** - Therapy involving an entire family, with the goal of helping family members reach agreement on changes that will help heal the family unit, improve communication problems, and create more understanding and harmony within the group.
 * **Group Therapy**- A form of therapy in which several clients (usually 7 to 10) meet regularly with one or more therapists to resolve personal problems.
 * **Behavior Therapy**- A treatment approach consistent with the learning perspective on psychological disoders--that abnormal behavior is learned.
 * **Couple Therapy** - Therapy involving intimate partners in which behavior change or partners' emotional responses to each other or both are the focus of treatment.

Analogies:
Family Therapy is like when a troubled family enters therapy sessions to try and solve the issues that are going on within there family.

Therapy is like meditation, you face your problems to reduce stress in your life.

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