psychosocial therapy

A relationship that occurs between a professional and an individual, family, group, or community for the purpose of helping the client overcome specific emotional or social problems and achieve specified goals for well-being. Psychosocial therapy is a form of psychotherapy that emphasizes the interface between the client and the client's environment. The psychosocial therapist tends to focus on interpersonal and social relationship problems in addition to intrapsychic concerns. Psychosocial therapy also seeks to mobilize available resources or create needed ones and combine them with individual, group, and familial relationships to help people modify their behaviors, personalities, or situations. This is done to help attain satisfying, fulfilling functioning within the framework of one's values and goals and the available resources of society.