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The goal of supportive psychotherapy is to ameliorate symptoms and to maintain, restore, or improve self-esteem, adaptive skills, and psychological function (Pinsker and Rosenthal 1988, p. 1). These objectives often can be accomplished with specific and direct supportive techniques, delivered in a conversational style, that are responsive to the patient’s identified goals and that are targeted to specific reparative tasks that the clinician has identified—such as examination of relationships and patterns of emotional response or behavior.
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