Role Playing In Psychodynamic Therapy

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Psychodynamic Therapy helped obtain more information about the client’s childhood and why she enjoyed having independence and freedom. This approach helped the client notice that her mother’s hard work in preforming the mother/father roles while her father was deployed, influenced the client to have the same independence/freedom aspirations as her mother. Role Playing did not assist this client in therapy. Christina was asked to be her mother and the counselor was the client. Christina was resistant in how her mother would react to the client’s comments. The client stated how she attempted this approaches in the past and stated it did not work.

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