Identify the correct goals of psychotherapies:
A. Facilitating decision-making
B. Lessening the client’s emotional pressure
C. Improving intrapersonal relations and communication
D. Helping the client relate to one’s social environment in a more creative and self-aware manner
E. Increasing the client’s emotional pressure
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 3
The correct answer is Option (3) → A, B, C and D only
A. Facilitating decision-making Correct. Facilitating decision-making is one of the goals all psychotherapies aim at: the client is helped to make her or his own choices in life.
B. Lessening the client’s emotional pressure Correct. The client comes to therapy in distress, and lessening emotional pressure is a goal of psychotherapy.
C. Improving intrapersonal relations and communication Correct. The goal is improving interpersonal relations and communication, that is, the client’s relations with other people (see the Note).
D. Helping the client relate to one’s social environment in a more creative and self-aware manner Correct. Psychotherapy aims at relating to one’s social environment in a more creative and self-aware manner, together with increasing self-awareness.
E. Increasing the client’s emotional pressure Incorrect. Therapy aims at lessening emotional pressure; increasing it is the opposite of a goal.
Note: It seems that there is a mistake in the original NTA paper, which prints ‘Improving intrapersonal relations and communication’ when it should read ‘interpersonal’. Intrapersonal means within oneself, while relations and communication are with other people; the goal given in NCERT (2025-26) is ‘Improving interpersonal relations and communication’. Read so, statement C is a goal, and Option (3) is the only option with A, B and D, so the answer is not affected.
NCERT (2025-26): “Nature and Process of Psychotherapy … All psychotherapies aim at a few or all of the following goals :
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