It is necessary to devise ways to implement effective psychotherapy in outpatient psychiatric care where time is limited. In general, it primarily involves confirming the effects and side effects of drug therapy and making adjustments, listening attentively to the patient's complaints, clarifying the problems at that time, and giving advice. The author believes that it is important for the patient to be accepted, healed, and prepared to go back out into the world. Social skills training (SST) is based on the perspective of what to do in order to help realize the patients' hopes. In daily psychiatric outpatient settings, listening to the state of daily life, it is easier to have a joint goal with patients by focusing on what can be done better in that situation. It is also useful when dealing with patients who have experienced few effect of drug therapy or do not desire medication. In addition, for patients whose symptoms fluctuate depending on the environment, especially their surrounding relationships, interpersonal relationship assessment and intervention can be used in the individual SST method. These are SST's strong points. The author will explain how to use the techniques in SST while introducing three examples.
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