Presentation Information
[SY-70]Approaches to the clients’ 'everyday life' in psychotherapy and its links to 'mental liveliness'
Kentaro Morita3, Rieko Shioji1, Farooq Naeem4, Francisco Figueroa Medina5, Yuichiro Abe2 (1.Faculty of Health Sciences, Tokyo Metropolitan University (Japan), 2.Department of Psychiatry, Ishiki Hospital(Japan), 3.Day hospital (Psychiatric Day Care) Department of Rehabilitation, University of Tokyo Hospital (Japan), 4.Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto & Centre for Addiction and Mental Health(Canada), 5.The Faculty of Integrated Human Studies, Kyoto University(Japan))
Keywords:
Psychotherapy,Daily life,therapeutic culture,quality of life (QOL),mental health
This symposium focuses on how clients' daily lives are approached in various types of psychotherapy, and how this links to client’s 'mental liveliness'. While Psychotherapy is a process primarily centered on dialogue between the therapist and client, but the clients spend most of their time in day-to-day situations that are removed from therapeutic setting. The goal of psychotherapy is not just to achieve an improvement in symptom but also improve their lives and achieve 'mental liveliness'.
In this symposium, five speakers will make presentations; they will present from the perspective of Morita Therapy, Social Rhythm Therapy, "Seikatsu-Rinsyo"(clinical guidance to the way of life), Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), and Zazen as a series of practices, respectively. The speakers will introduce how they approach the topic of their clients' daily lives in their sessions, how the content of the sessions is applied to clients' real lives, how their daily lives are transformed, consequently how this makes their clients' minds more active and alive.Presenters will also refer to records written by clients between sessions such as activety records and dyary entries. Discussions will focus on the differences and similarities between these processes, as well as the underlying therapeutic culture. We hope this symposium will promote ian understanding of the prosesses that occur over the courxe of psychotherapy wherein clienats' quality of life (QOL) improves and mental liveliness are achieved.
In this symposium, five speakers will make presentations; they will present from the perspective of Morita Therapy, Social Rhythm Therapy, "Seikatsu-Rinsyo"(clinical guidance to the way of life), Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), and Zazen as a series of practices, respectively. The speakers will introduce how they approach the topic of their clients' daily lives in their sessions, how the content of the sessions is applied to clients' real lives, how their daily lives are transformed, consequently how this makes their clients' minds more active and alive.Presenters will also refer to records written by clients between sessions such as activety records and dyary entries. Discussions will focus on the differences and similarities between these processes, as well as the underlying therapeutic culture. We hope this symposium will promote ian understanding of the prosesses that occur over the courxe of psychotherapy wherein clienats' quality of life (QOL) improves and mental liveliness are achieved.