Initiate Coping Skills Psychotherapy and Stress Management
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As the patient's behavior improves, the focus can shift to mastery of new coping skills, management of and reactions to stress, and other individualized goals. Individual therapy is augmented by skills training groups that may be highly structured (e.g., comparable to a classroom format). Patients are taught skills for coping with identity diffusion, tolerating distress, improving interpersonal relationships, controlling emotions, and resolving interpersonal crises. Patients are given homework assignments to practice these skills, which are further addressed and reinforced within individual sessions.
Sarah J. Thompson, MD
Online Diagnosis of Symptoms and Medical Diseases Online Diagnosis of Psychiatric Disorders
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