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Psychotherapy in Qatar, commonly understood as “Talk Therapy” or Counseling, is a very popular tool used nowadays to treat several diagnoses. It has recently gained more attention and acceptance due to the rising stress in today’s daily life. Pharmacotherapy is needed in the treatment of severe cases in conjunction with Psychotherapy, but Psychological interventions may be used alone in mild to moderate cases safely and effectively. Psychotherapy targets thinking processes, behaviors, emotions, and personality aspects, which help in the prevention of relapse, hence making it an important treatment tool to achieve significant long-term benefits. Many types and formats of Psychological interventions are now available and are used in different settings over various diagnoses.
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) is a form of psychotherapy that targets faulty, distorted thought processes (cognitions), perceptions, and behaviors. It aims to replace them with balanced, healthy alternatives. Commonly employed in addressing depression, anxiety, obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), and panic disorder, among others, CBT extends its efficacy to personality disorders, eating disorders, addictions, and various chronic physical illnesses. It has also demonstrated effectiveness as an adjunctive treatment for schizophrenia and bipolar affective disorder, as well as medical conditions like fibromyalgia, irritable bowel syndrome, chronic pain, migraine, and cancer. CBT is often used across all age groups to help children, adolescents, and adults. It usually requires a minimum of 12-15 sessions of 45 minutes duration each.
It is a type of psychological intervention where the patient works with his therapist on a one-on-one basis and is provided with a safe, empathetic and confidential platform to express and ventilate his feelings, beliefs and thoughts. Individual therapy aims to allow the patient to understand his triggers and behavioural patterns, identify aspects of his life which are emotionally challenging, learn to manage stress and interpersonal interactions, develop skills to make healthy, informed decisions, set personal goals and work towards implementation of the same, improve self esteem and confidence and to develop self awareness and self reliance. A patient may seek Individual therapy to deal with an immediate life stressor, a long term issue, past childhood traumas, a mental health disorder or to even gain tools for self growth and development. It may take 5-6 sessions or even several months/years of work depending on the severity of the condition and the patient’s requirement to address the problem.
Also known as insight-oriented psychotherapy which is one of the oldest forms of psychotherapy and helps patients to understand how their past childhood experiences and traumas influence their present life. Often human psychology represses unresolved conflicts and untoward, painful events into the subconscious mind which leads to developing defence mechanisms which maybe immature or unhealthy, over time these tend to become patterns of coping as they make us feel better. Psychoanalysis is based on the modern developments in the theories of Sigmund Freud. Hence psychodynamic therapy helps to work towards resolving these repressed conflicts such that immature defence mechanisms are reduced by encouraging the patient to talk about whatever comes to his mind using “free association” technique. This therapy is used in wide range of mental health problems including depression, anxiety, addictions, panic disorder, somatic disorders, childhood traumas, relationship difficulties, personality issues etc.
The main objective of family therapy is to bring the family members together in a group format where they learn better communication and interactive skills, understand the family dynamics contributing to the dysfunctionality and learn to rectify it, deal with simple and complex family matters and better manage mental health problems in a family member by providing a supportive and conducive home environment. Family therapy can help in situations such as adjusting to new life changes (eg moving, unemployment) or a medical condition, challenges that come with aging, grief and death and relationship conflicts such as parent-child conflict, sibling conflict etc. There are different types of family therapy in terms of therapy length, techniques and treatment goals. Some forms may include Functional family therapy ( FFT), Structural family therapy, Strategic family therapy, Systemic family therapy etc. Family therapy may be beneficial if a family member has conditions like depression, anxiety, obsessive compulsive disorder, eating disorders, bipolar affective disorder, schizophrenia, addictions, personality disorder like borderline personality disorder. It can also help in childhood and adolescent conditions like autism spectrum disorders, attention deficit hyperkinetic disorder, conduct disorder, oppositional defiant disorder, disruptive mood dysregulation disorder etc.
This therapy involves the spouses or romantic partners who seek help from the therapist to improve their relationship. The process first identifies the challenges the couple is facing and then provides tools to reestablish the bond. The main problems often include communication issues, infidelity or trust issues, financial matters, raising of children, adoption of a role, personality clashes, cultural and religious differences, sexual issues, problems due to extended family, mental/medical health/ addictions in one partner etc. The therapy helps couples to develop adaptive patterns to manage conflicts using open and honest communication, collaboration, negotiation, problem solving skills, argue in a healthy way by respecting emotional vulnerability of both partners.
It is a therapeutic psychological intervention used for improvement of sexual function and treatment of sexual disorders. These include dysfunctions like premature ejaculation, delayed ejaculation, erectile dysfunction, lack of sexual interest or arousal, impotence, low libido and painful sex (vaginismus and dyspareunia); as well as problems imposed by atypical sexual interests like paraphilias, gender identity disorder, hyper-sexuality, lack of sexual confidence or recovering from sexual abuse such as rape or sexual assault as well as sexual issues related to illnesses, aging or disability. The therapy aims to understand the psychological, biological, relational, and contextual aspects of the sexual problem and provides tools and strategies to improve the dynamic. Many pharmacological options (medication) are also available which are often used to treat these problems.
It is the use of hypnosis in psychotherapy. It is used as an helpful adjunctive therapy when treating psychological disorders like depression, anxiety, eating disorders, addictions, smoking cessation, weight reduction, compulsive gambling, post traumatic stress disorder, childhood traumas, phobias, irritable bowel disorder, etc. Hypnotherapy uses the principle of inducing a state of intense concentration or focused attention. This is a guided process with verbal cues and repetition. A trance like state is attained which seems like being in sleep however one is fully aware. Many strategies maybe used to attain a hypnotic state like relaxation technique, eye-fixation/ fixed-gaze induction, creative visualization, disrupting equilibrium etc. There are four states of hypnosis, induction where patient relaxes and ignores distractions, deepener where the patient goes into a deeper level of focus, suggestions where strong statements about the required behaviour are made and emergence when the patient slowly returns to his awake state. Hypnotherapy is effective if a patient is more suggestible. Another type of hypnotherapy is narco analysis where truth serum/medication may be given to allow repressed issues to be expressed like childhood traumas etc.
It is form of therapy which is based on the fact that all behaviours are learned hence they can be changed. It follows the behaviourism’s theory of learning: classical or operant conditioning. In classical conditioning the idea is that if a neutral stimulus is paired wth a stimulus that triggers a reflexive response then on repetitive pairing the neutral stimulus gives the reflexive response. Operant conditioning involves giving rewards and punishments and how that increases or decreases certain behaviours. Some of the well known types of behavioural therapy are relaxation training, systematic desensitization, visual reality exposure technique, exposure and response prevention training, social skill training, modelling, aversion therapy etc. The conditions it is used in are anxiety, phobias, depression, obsessive compulsive disorder, sexual deviations, alcohol use disorder, anger management issues, suicidal ideation, eating disorder, aggressive behaviour etc. Newer types of behavioural therapy include acceptance and commitment therapy ( ACT), functional analytical psychotherapy (FAP), dialectical behavioural therapy (DBT), behavioural activation etc.