Therapy and Treatment
Part 1 Psychodynamic therapy is the kind of talk therapy many people imagine when they think of psychological treatment for depression. Psychodynamic therapy is designed to help patients explore the full range of their emotions, including feelings they may not be aware of. By making the unconscious elements of their life a part of their present experience, psychodynamic therapy helps people understand how their behavior and mood are affected by unresolved issues and unconscious feelings. To get this kind of treatment and help, you go to a licensed mental health care professional who helps the patient figure out the cause of their depression.
Humanistic therapy places the responsibilities for treatment into the hands of the client. Each client is seen as a unique person deserving of human worth and dignity. The individual is accepted as being capable of making choices for themselves, and having a free will. Clients select their own goals for therapy because it’s based on humanistic psychology, one common goal would be self-actualization, or reaching of one’s full growth potential. Humanistic therapy includes client-centered therapy, gestalt therapy, and existential therapy. It focuses on the thoughts, abilities, and talents of the client. Clients must be highly verbal, wish to use the therapist as a sounding board, and have a fairly good insight into their own problems. To get this kind of help, you go to a licensed mental health care professional and they will help the patient figure out what the cause of the depression is by introducing you to different things.
Behavioral therapy comes from the belief that therapy should concentrate on observable stimuli and responses. The therapy includes the application of learning practices, including classical conditioning and operant conditioning. These therapies are especially helpful in the treatment of phobic conditions and getting rid of destructive habits. Behavioral therapy is relatively brief, lasting typically from a few weeks to a few months. Behavior therapists, like other therapists, seek to develop warm therapeutic relationships with clients, but they believe the special efficacy of behavior therapy derives from the learning-based techniques rather than from the nature of the therapeutic relationship. To get this kind of health, you go to a mental health care professional and they will help the patient distinguish why they are depressed and figure out different behavior techniques to use.

Cognitive therapy is based on the fact that depressed people always think very negative thoughts about themselves such as “I always fail at everything” or “I’m never going to be happy.” Cognitive therapy is the way to help you think realistically about yourself instead of negatively. With cognitive therapy, people learn how to recognize and correct the negative thoughts that automatically occur. The way cognitive therapy works is a patient learns to "disassemble" problems into these various parts. Once a person does that, problems that seemed overwhelming become manageable. During regular cognitive therapy sessions, a trained therapist teaches the tools of cognitive therapy. Then between sessions, the patient often does homework. That homework helps the person learn how to apply the tools to solve specific life problems.
Biomedical therapy is physical or medical treatments such as drug therapy, electroconvulsive therapy, or surgery that are used to treat mental or psychological disorders. Drug therapy relies on medication for the treatment of mental disorders. Antianxiety, antipsychotic drugs and antidepressant are three examples. Antianxiety drugs are used to relieve anxiety. Antipsychotic drugs are used primarily to treat schizophrenia and to reduce psychotic symptoms such as hyperactivity, hallucinations, delusions, and mental confusion. Antidepressant drugs are used to elevate mood and treat