Question

THEORY OF WHY IT WORKS? - How does REPLAN and The Therapeutic Factors therapy work?

BARRIERS TO SUCCESS (WHAT COULD PREVENT SUCCESS when using REPLAN and The Therapeutic Factors)?

SPECIFIC MECHANISM (The “HOW”) OF CHANGE: How can therapy change when using REPLAN and The Therapeutic Factors?

GOALS/OUTCOME - what are the goals when using REPLAN and The Therapeutic Factors?

EXAMPLE- what is an example when using REPLAN and The Therapeutic Factors?

Answer 1

Introduction- The term REPLAN refers to the set of six therapeutic measures of fulfilling the client’s goals and developed by Paul Wachtel. Each letter of the REPLAN indicates a different therapeutic strategy.

• Relationship: Developing a positive therapeutic relationship with the client.
• Efficacy: Increase the self-esteem and efficacy of the client during the whole treatment and counseling sessions.
• Practice: Help the client to develop new and appropriate and practice on it.
• Lowering: Lowering the emotional arousal of the client.
• Activating: The activation of motivation and root to the positive changes.
• New: The main objective of this term is to provide new learning experiences and perceptions.

The primary objective of this method is to integrate the therapies to help client in a positive and effective way, as we know every therapy works in a specific area of the behavior while the main reason to conduct therapies is to help client and develop a long term balanced behavior so when we use all therapies to achieve a particular goal is called REPLAN method.

The integrated psychodynamic behavior therapy is very effective and influential if we use in distinctive and formative manners. The REPLAN method is an applied strategy and helps the client to change in behavior.