Match List-I with List-II
| List-I | List-II | ||
| Type of therapy | Goal of therapy | ||
| (A) | Existential therapy | (I) | to increase an individual’s self awareness and self acceptance |
| (B) | Psychodynamic therapy | (II) | to find meaning in life irrespective of circumstances |
| (C) | Behaviour therapy | (III) | to identify and change faulty behavior and thought patterns |
| (D) | Gestalt therapy | (IV) | to provide an insight to understand intrapsychic conflicts |
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 2
The correct answer is Option (2) → (A) - (II), (B) - (IV), (C) - (III), (D) - (I)
(A) Existential therapy — this matches (II) to find meaning in life irrespective of circumstances. In Frankl’s logotherapy, the goal is to help patients find meaning and responsibility in their life irrespective of their life circumstances.
(B) Psychodynamic therapy — this matches (IV) to provide an insight to understand intrapsychic conflicts. Its chief benefit is emotional insight: the client understands her or his conflicts intellectually, accepts them emotionally and changes her or his emotions towards them.
(C) Behaviour therapy — this matches (III) to identify and change faulty behavior and thought patterns. It treats changing faulty behaviour and thought patterns into adaptive ones as the chief benefit.
(D) Gestalt therapy — this matches (I) to increase an individual’s self awareness and self acceptance. Given by Fritz and Laura Perls, it aims to increase self-awareness and self-acceptance.
NCERT (2025-26): “Type of Therapies … Psychodynamic therapy values emotional insight as the important benefit that the client derives from the treatment. Emotional insight is present when the client understands her/his conflicts intellectually; is able to accept the same emotionally; and is able to change her/his emotions towards the conflicts.…” “Type of Therapies … The behaviour therapy considers changing faulty behaviour and thought patterns to adaptive ones as the chief benefit of the treatment.…” “Existential Therapy … The goal of logotherapy is to help the patients to find meaning and responsibility in their life irrespective of their life circumstances.…” “Gestalt Therapy … The German word gestalt means ‘whole’. This therapy was given by Freiderick (Fritz) Perls together with his wife Laura Perls. The goal of gestalt therapy is to increase an individual’s self-awareness and self-acceptance.…” |