Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy

Psychotherapy aims to learn new solutions to old problems while discovering the freedom to make the right choices to achieve goals.

During Psychotherapy, moods, feelings, thoughts and behaviours will be addressed to help clients take control of their lives and respond to challenging situations.

Benefits:

The development of an emotional management capacity over internal states;
The acquisition of autonomy and control in life;
The ability to create new narratives for oneself and others, new ways of understanding and conducting one’s life;
Develop interpersonal skills such as empathy, ability to communicate, assertiveness, problem solving, etc.
The development of resilience to increase tolerance and the ability to grow with the difficulties that life imposes;
Psychotherapy is a process that allows empirically proven results in several problems such as: panic, phobias, depression, anorexia, post traumatic stress among others.
It is equally effective in personal, marital and family conflicts that can cause psychological / emotional distress and difficulty in functioning properly.

Diferentes vertentes em que a psicologia poderá ajuda-lo:

Avaliação da personalidade e funcionamento emocional

Esta avaliação é realizada através da prova projetiva Rorscharh e consiste na análise das várias áreas da pessoa como:

Controlo e tolerância ao stress
Aspectos afectivos
Relações interpessoais
Imagem de si
Ideação
Processamento de informação
Mediação de informação

Esta análise irá permitir à pessoa compreender o que está a boicotar a sua felicidade, a manter padrões disfuncionais, a dificiltar o seu relacionamento com os outros e com o mundo.

Orientação vocacional

Por vezes os jovens têm dúvidas sobre qual o caminho a seguir. Qual a área de estudos escolher no 9ano, qual o curso superior escolher ou até mesmo não saberem para que área de estudos querem prosseguir depois de se darem conta de que não escolheram bem da primeira vez.

A avaliação psicológica neste âmbito visa ajudar a esclarecer e tomar consciência de vários aspetos, através de uma compilação de dados provenientes de:

Avaliação da Personalidade
Avaliação dos Raciocínios (espacial, mecânico, numérico, abstracto e verbal)
Avaliação de Interesses.

Depois da combinação desses dados é possível ajudar o jovem a dar conta dos seus pontos fortes e pontos menos fortes para que possam decidir em plena consciência o seu percurso profissional e pessoal.

Child assessment and consultation

Sometimes children manifest behaviors that can and should be seen by the adult as symptoms of something that the child is having difficulties in their development process.

Symptoms such as:

Relationship Difficulties
and communication
Apathy
Opposing Conduct
and aggressive
Hyperactive conduits
Learning difficulties
Night terrors (nightmares)
Difficulty in sphincter control (enuresis and encopresis)

The evaluation is carried out with the use of age-specific evaluation instruments and lithodiagnosis.

It is essential for the adult to account for behaviors as signs or symptoms and to understand how to help the child develop in a healthy and harmonious way.

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EMDR Therapy

Desensitisation and Reprocessing of Eye Movement (EMDR) is a psychotherapy that allows people to heal from the symptoms and emotional distress that result from disturbing life experiences.

Repeated studies show that using EMDR therapy people can experience the benefits of psychotherapy, which it would take years to achieve. It is widely assumed that severe emotional pain requires a lot of time to heal.

EMDR therapy shows that the mind can indeed heal itself from psychological trauma as much as the body recovers from physical trauma. Using the detailed protocols and procedures learned, the psychotherapist helps the client to activate their natural healing processes.

More than 30 studies of positive controlled outcomes were done with EMDR therapy. Some of the studies show that 84-90% of victims of a single trauma no longer have post-traumatic stress disorder after only three 90-minute sessions. It is recognised as an effective form of treatment by organisations such as the American Psychiatric Association, the World Health Organisation and the Department of Defence.