Supportive Psychotherapy
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Supportive psychotherapy is the most widely practiced treatment approach because it is applicable for patients with most psychiatric diagnoses. In addition, it is focused on the patient-therapist relationship and promoting the therapeutic alliance, which is the best predictor of therapeutic success (Horvath and Symonds 1991). The Residency Review Committee for Psychiatry has emphasized the importance of training in supportive psychotherapy. This committee now mandates that all psychiatry residents receive training and become certified as competent by their training program in three types of psychotherapy, one of which must be supportive psychotherapy.
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