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Status Dynamic Psychotherapy (SDT) is an approach to psychotherapy that focuses on changing a client's "statuses", whether they be career related, personal or social in nature. SDT is characterized by its lack of focus on factors traditionally targeted by psychotherapy such as the client's behaviors and cognitions, and how unconscious factors come into play. SDT was created by Peter G. Ossorio at the University of Colorado in the late 1960s as part of a larger system known as "descriptive psychology".[1][2]
Proponents of SDT maintain:
- That this emphasis does not conflict with the emphases of other schools,
- That status dynamic ideas can be used in conjunction with them in an integrated way, and
- That SDT thus represents a way for therapists to expand (vs. replace) their repertoire of explanations and clinical interventions.[1][2]
- ^ a b Bergner, Raymond M. (2007). Status dynamics : creating new paths to therapeutic change (1st ed.). Ann Arbor, Mich.: Burns Park Publishers. ISBN 9780977228614. OCLC 138341300.
- ^ a b Bergner, R. M. (1999). "Status enhancement: a further path to therapeutic change". American Journal of Psychotherapy. 53 (2): 201–214. doi:10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1999.53.2.201. ISSN 0002-9564. PMID 10415989.