A type of therapy in which the therapist-patient relationship is used to help patients cope with specific crises or difficulties that they are currently facing. Supportive therapy avoids, rather than encourages, the development of a transference neurosis. It employs a range of techniques, depending on the patient\u2019s strengths and weaknesses and the particular problems that are currently distressing. These techniques include listening in a sympathetic, concerned, understanding, and nonjudgmental fashion; providing factual information that may counter a patient\u2019s unrealistic fears; setting limits and encouraging the patient to control or relinquish self-destructive behavior and to give attention to more constructive action; and facilitating discharge of and relief from painful feelings within the controlled environment of the consultation room.<\/p>\n
A type of psychotherapy that aims to reinforce a patient\u2019s defenses and help suppress disturbing psychological material. Supportive psychotherapy utilizes such measures as inspiration, re-assurance, suggestion, persuasion, counseling, and re-education. It avoids probing the patient\u2019s emotional conflicts in depth.<\/p>\n
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A type of therapy in which the therapist-patient relationship is used to help patients cope with specific crises or difficulties that they are currently facing. Supportive therapy avoids, rather than encourages, the development of a transference neurosis. It employs a range of techniques, depending on the patient\u2019s strengths and weaknesses and the particular problems that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-s"],"yoast_head":"\n