Help Your Adolescent Find Healing & Psychotherapy
What Should I Know About Psychotherapy?
Psychotherapeutic treatments are utilized by mental health professionals to assist adolescents in treatment. Treatment approaches are often unique and individualized, but can also be comprised of similar psychological elements.
Psychotherapeutic Treatments
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
This treatment approach developed by psychiatrist Dr. Aaron Beck, focuses on strategies and techniques to help adolescents correct their negative views about themselves and the world. Often, distorted beliefs and thoughts contribute to their symptoms of depression and anxiety. This is an effective treatment approach among adolescents (Beck & Haigh, 2014).
Dialectical Therapy
This treatment was developed by psychologist Dr. Marsha Linehan. It is empirically based with supportive interventions emphasizing individual and family skills to enable effectively coping with internal and external challenges. This is an especially effective treatment modality for self-harming behaviors among adolescents and emerging adults (Linehan & Wilks, 2015).
Psychodynamic Therapy
A therapeutic theory developed by Dr. Sigmund Freud (psychologist and neurologist) viewing the functioning of individuals as the combination of drives and forces (both conscious and unconscious) leading one's behaviors and thoughts. This treatment focuses on gaining insight of one's experiences and the impact on their personality including the id, ego, and superego (Freud, et al., 1988).
Family Systems Therapy
This treatment approach was developed by psychiatrist Dr. Murray Bowen. It focuses on the family as a whole system of interactions and connections, which influence individual's behaviors in the system in an interconnected manner. A change in one individual is likely to influence the behaviors of another family member in the system (Bowen, 1988).
