Motivational therapy (or MT) is a combination of humanistic treatment and enhanced cognitive-behavioral strategies, designed to treat substance abuse.

It is similar to Motivational Interviewing and Motivational Enhancement Therapy Method The focus of motivational therapy is encouraging a patient to develop a negative view of their abuse, along with a desire to change their behavior. A motivational therapist does not explicitly advocate change and tends to avoid directly contradicting their patient, but instead expresses empathy, rolls with resistance, and supports selfefficacy. Often, a methadone or similar program is used in conjunction with motivational therapy. Some suggest that the success of motivational therapy is highly dependent on the quality of the therapist involved and, like all therapies, has no guaranteed result. Others explain the frequent successes of motivational therapy by noting that the patient is the ultimate source of change, choosing to reduce their dependency on drugs. Motivational therapies are focused specifically on a persons needs, or on what there problems may be. Sessions are usually short the first time you see a patient, but time can vary the next few sessions. During these times there are different methods and techniques used by the therapist. Techniques consist of: Brief solution focussed therapy, Cognitive behavioural therapy, Schema focussed therapy, Interpersonal therapy, Compassion focussed therapy and compassionate mind training, and Hypnosis. SHORT-TERM PSYCHOTHERAPY The initial goal of treatment is to relieve the distressing symptoms that the patient is experiencing as quickly as possible, to re-establish emotional balance and to clear thinking, and to restore the patient to a former level of functioning. The primary goal of brief or short-term therapy is symptom relief and the restoration to a previous level of functioning with the incorporation of more effective problem solving skills and better coping ability. SHORT-TERM PSYCHOTHERAPHY EMPHASIZES: 1. A focus on a specific problem, and 2. Direct intervention Short-term psychotherapy is solution-based. It is less concerned with how a problem arose than with the current factors sustaining it and preventing change. The goal is to learn coping techniques and problem-solving skills that can help a person regain a sense of control and balance in their life. This is accomplished by an interactive, solution-focused approach that addresses acute challenges to the individual such as anxiety and depression that the patient is experiencing.

COMPREHENSIVE PSYCHOTHERAPY In contrast to short-term psychotherapy longterm comprehensive psychotherapy has a more general and exploratory focus. The goal is to help people identify and understand the behavior, emotions, and ideas that contribute to their problems or illness. Understanding and identifying the long standing life problems or events that contribute to a persons problems can help the person understand which aspects of these problems they may personally be contributing to. By identifying ones input into problems one can gain power to change. The aim is be able to solve problems and improve the quality of their life. The most important benefit of long-term comprehensive psychotherapy is that through growth and development the patient will feel like themself again, or for the first time. This result comes from learning a different mode of being. The patient learns a better, more effective way of processing information and a broader more open way of experiencing themself, other people and the world. Ultimately the patient can rediscover their own voice, i.e., who they are, their thoughts, feelings, fantasies as well as their priorities. By behaving in a self-directed, spontaneous and effective manner they can develop the courage to actualize their priorities into action and behavior. This leads to a greater sense of control, provides a richer emotional experience, and increases the sense of personal freedom and self-esteem resulting in the ability to create a more satisfying, successful and meaningful life.

Insight-Oriented Psychotherapy
What is Insight-oriented Psychotherapy?
Insight-oriented psychotherapy is a form of treatment that helps people through understanding and expressing feelings, motivations, beliefs, fears and desires. The understanding develops in the context of a therapeutic relationship. Insight-oriented psychotherapy has developed from psychoanalysis, a form of therapy first established by Sigmund Freud. Central concepts include the belief that psychiatric symptoms and patterns of behaviour, are partially determined by unconscious forces related to a patient's early life experience. Insight-oriented psychotherapy, as practiced today at Psychiatric Services is quite different from the image of the patient lying on a couch with the silent analyst in the background, working with classical drive theory. Clinicians working here are influenced mainly by the more contemporary models of object relations and self-psychology, which stress the importance of both early and current relationships in mental health.