Aaron Beck developed Cognitive Therapy for treating depression. He suggested that psychopathology is the result of cognitive distortions which must be altered. Humanistic, Group, and Family Therapy 1. Humanistic therapies address the phenomenal world. Rogers client-centered therapy helps people to grow and achieve their potential.
Group therapy focuses on individual dynamics and group process.
Family therapy assumes that the roots of symptoms lie in the structure of the family, so that therapy should target family interaction patterns. In marital or couples therapy the couple is treated as a single unit. Biological Treatments 1. The goal is to alter brain functioning. Pharmacotherapy, or the use of medications, is the major type of treatment approach.