THE EFFECT OF DYNAMIC ORIENTED BRIEF-INTENSIVE-EMERGENCY PSYCHOLOGICAL COUNSELING ON DEPRESSION

Year 2022, Issue: 61, 229 - 249, 09.02.2022

Oğuzhan Yıldırım

Abstract

This research aimed to examine the effectiveness of Dynamic Oriented Brief-Intensive-Emergency psychological counseling on depression. The effect of this psychological counseling approach on the client was tested by the Case Work method. Beck Depression Inventory, The Symptom Checklist (SCL-90 R), Hacettepe Personality Inventory and Beier Sentence Completion Test were applied to the client as pre-test, post-test and follow-up test. Dynamic Oriented Brief-Intensive-Emergency psychological counseling, consisting of 6 sessions, was applied to the cilent. The process and methods in the sessions were presented as qualitative findings, and scores of the scales were presented as quantitative findings. According to the research results, Brief-Intensive-Emergency psychological counseling was found to be effective in reducing depressive symptoms. In addition, it was noticed that the client's high paranoid thoughts decreased. Also, it was found that the symptoms of interpersonal sensitivity, hostility, somatization, anxiety, phobic anxiety, additional scale and psychoticism remained at normal level. In addition to all these, it was observed that the client's personal adaptation increased and her positive attitudes towards the past and the future increased.

Keywords

Depression, psychological counseling, dynamic oriented brief-intensive-emergency

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