Psychotherapies are given below in the order in which they emerged, with one group left out: (1) Psychodynamic therapy, (2) [missing], (3) Existential therapies, also called the third force. Identify the missing group. Which of the following describes how its therapist is assumed to relate to the client?
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 2
The correct answer is Option (2) → The therapist discerns the client's faulty behaviour and thought patterns
Option (1) The therapist interprets the client's intrapsychic conflicts to the client — Incorrect. This is the view of psychodynamic therapy. The therapist understands the client's intrapsychic conflicts better and interprets them to her/him. Psychodynamic therapy emerged first, so it is not the missing group.
Option (2) The therapist discerns the client's faulty behaviour and thought patterns — Correct. The missing group is behaviour therapy, which came after psychodynamic therapy and before the existential therapies. It assumes the therapist can discern the client's faulty behaviour and thought patterns and find adaptive ones.
Option (3) The therapist provides a warm, empathic relationship for self-exploration — Incorrect. A warm, empathic relationship in which the client explores her/his own problems belongs to the existential therapies. These emerged last, as the third force.
Option (4) The therapist acts as a facilitator while the client finds solutions — Incorrect. The therapist as a facilitator, with the client reaching solutions through personal growth, is the existential method of treatment. In behaviour therapy the therapist finds the correct patterns.
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