Psychotherapy encompasses a range of techniques based on personal interaction that are intended to support mental well-being through influencing personal behaviors. Psychotherapy focuses especially on maladaptations related to temperament, behavior, thought, and/or perception. More than a thousand schools have emerged, drawing on perspectives as diverse as Behaviorisms, Psychoanalytic Theories, and Complex Systems Research.
Learn More...Affective Theory – any approach to Psychotherapy that focuses on feelings and emotions at the principle site of therapeutic change
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Davis, B., & Francis, K. (2025). “Affective Theory” in Discourses on Learning in Education. https://learningdiscourses.com.
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