An Integration Of Psychotherapy And Speech Therapy Through A Conflict Theory Of Stuttering

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When stuttering is considered as an approach-avoidance conflict, both psychotherapy and speech therapy do not need to be in competition but can have a common goal. Psychotherapy alone has been far from impressive, and speech therapy is essential for reduction of the stutters'' symptoms and change in his general personality patterns. Speech therapy should be presented first. The common goals of the 2 therapies are the reduction of all tendencies to avoidance and of the fears which motivate them. Therapy is carried out successively at each of the levels at which approach-avoidance conflict occurs at stuttering-word and situation, feeling, relationship, and ego-protective.

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