Application: Individual Therapy

Application: Individual Therapy
In this week’s Discussion, you considered broad differences between Eastern and Western psychotherapeutic interventions. The focus of this week’s Application is individual therapy, one specific type of psychotherapeutic intervention. In individual therapy, one client sits with one therapist to address the client’s concerns. Your course text, the assigned video clips, and the assigned Web site article refer to different approaches in individual therapy such as psychoanalysis, behavioral therapy, cognitive therapy, and counseling. Regardless of the approach, individual therapy depends on a person’s willingness to seek therapy and the relationship between a therapist and a client. In the Discussion, you observed how sociocultural context influences psychotherapeutic interventions throughout the world. In this Application, you consider how sociocultural context influences individual therapy.

To prepare for this assignment:

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Review Chapter 8 in your textbook, Toward a Global Psychology: Theory, Research, Intervention, and Pedagogy. Pay particular attention to the following sections: “A Global Panorama of Psychotherapy: Innovations, Modifications, and Elaborations” and “Psychotherapy in its Sociocultural Context.”
Review the Web site article, “Japanese Culture and Therapeutic Relationship,” paying particular attention to attitudes toward psychotherapy and therapist-client relationships.
Review the following videos: “Tango and Analysis,” “Argentina in Therapy –  Trailer Film,” and “Argentina in Therapy – Pre-Title Sequence.” Focus on attitudes toward psychotherapy and therapist-client relationships.
Consider similarities and differences in attitudes toward individual therapy in Argentina and Japan.
Think about how sociocultural context, in general, influences attitudes toward therapy.
Consider similarities and differences in therapist-client relationships between Argentina and Japan.
Reflect on how sociocultural context, in general, influences therapist-client relationships.
The assignment (1-2 pages):

Explain how sociocultural context influences attitudes toward therapy.
Explain how sociocultural context influences therapist-client relationships.
Compare (similarities and differences) attitudes toward individual therapy in Argentina and Japan.
Compare (similarities and differences) therapist-client relationships in Argentina and Japan.
Support your Application Assignment with specific references to all resources used in its preparation. You are asked to provide a reference list only for those resources not included in the Learning Resources for this course.