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Supervision in Counselling, Psychotherapy and Helping Relationships

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Supervision in Counselling, Psychotherapy and Helping Relationships at University of Salford

Language: English Studies in English
Subject area: economy and administration
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Psychotherapy
Psychotherapy is the use of psychological methods, particularly when based on regular personal interaction, to help a person change behavior and overcome problems in desired ways. Psychotherapy aims to improve an individual's well-being and mental health, to resolve or mitigate troublesome behaviors, beliefs, compulsions, thoughts, or emotions, and to improve relationships and social skills. Certain psychotherapies are considered evidence-based for treating some diagnosed mental disorders. Others have been criticized as pseudoscience.
Supervision
Supervision is an act or instance of directing, managing, or oversight.
Psychotherapy
If we are to put interrogators to work in defence of liberal values, their role in the community must receive proper recognition. They will require intensive counselling to overcome the inevitable traumas that this difficult work involves. They must be enabled to see themselves as dedicated workers in the cause of progress. Psychotherapy must be available to help them avoid the negative self-image from which some torturers have suffered in the past.
John N. Gray, "A Modest Proposal," New Statesman, February 17, 2003
Psychotherapy
I feel that any form of so called psychotherapy is strongly contraindicated for addicts. The question "Why did you start using narcotics in the first place?" should never be asked. It is quite as irrelevant to treatment as it would be to ask a malarial patient why he went to a malarial area.
William S. Burroughs, quoted in: Lois A. Michel (1968) Way out: a thematic reader. p. 121
Psychotherapy
Psychotherapy may begin with the primitive, but it must end with the divine, for both are integral factors in the human mind.
Violet M. Firth, (Dion Fortune) (1922), The Machinery of the Mind. p. 98
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