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The Supportive Approach to Therapy and Taking a Second Look: Reflections on "The Supportive Approach to Therapy"

2 CE Hours
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About the Course

The paper correct misunderstandings about supportive therapy as a non-specific, reassuring response to patients’ overwhelming stress. Supportive therapy require perceptive assessment of the particular coping skills used by the patient, and an understanding of the ways in which empathic contact revives the sense of capacity to endure.

This course is based on the reading online article, The Supportive Approach to Therapy and Taking a Second Look: Reflections on “The Supportive Approach to Therapy” created by Shirley Greenberg et al

Publication Details

Publication Date: 2007 Volume 1

Course Material Authors

Course Material Authors authored the material only, and were not involved in creating this CE course. They are identified here for your own evaluation of the relevancy of the material this course is based on.

Shirley Greenberg
Shirley Greenberg, MSW was a social worker at the McLean Hospital Outpatient Clinic and the Harvard University Student Health Services as well as the Department of Social Services, Mt. Auburn Hospital, Cambridge Ma.
Carol Ganzer, Ph.D, MSW
Dr. Ganzer is faculty Institute for Clinical Social Work, Past President of the Chicago Association of Psychoanalytic Psychology, editorial board of the Clinical Social Work Journal and Beyond the Couch. She is in private practice in Chicago.

Course Creator

Keith Gibson, Ph.D.

Target Audience

This course is recommended for health care professionals, especially social workers, psychologists, counselors, and nurses who seek knowledge about intervention strategies. It is appropriate for all levels of participants' knowledge.

Learning Objectives

After taking this course, you should be able to:

  1. 1 Upon completion of the course, the reader will understand differing ways to think about supportive therapy.
  2. 2 Upon the completion of this course, the reader will be able to apply supportive techniques as adjunctive to other techniques.
  3. 3 Upon completion of this course, the reader will be able to describe ways to use supportive techniques with a variety of presenting problems.
  4. 4 Upon completing this course, the reader will be able to describe the difference between supportive or exploratory techniques in psychotherapy.

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Planners and Reviewers

The planners of this activity have reported that they have no relevant financial relationships.

Material Authors

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Course Creator

Keith Gibson, Ph.D. – There are no known relevant financial relationships to disclose.

Commercial support

There is no commercial support for this distance-learning course.

$18

Course Details

2 CE Hours
Reading Online
Course 101129

Availability

This course is retired. It is no longer available.

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