Describe And Evaluate Two Approaches To The Treatm

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The majority of us struggle with completing the challenges we set ourselves and sabotage our efforts. Why do people for example abandon their new year’s resolution weeks or sometimes even days after they have agreed they would stick to them? And why do some people with similar backgrounds or education do better than others? A lot of it goes down to the way we are brought up, in other words the programming we received from our parents and society and which gets stored in our subconscious mind. Every time our conscious mind is getting some new information that is different from the one which is already stored it is very critical towards it and rejects it straight away. So we are established in our habits and ways of doing things and here are the origins of the reasons why it is so difficult for us to make changes which we know would be beneficial for us. Becoming aware of the roots of our self defeating behaviours can help us gain insight. In this essay I shall examine the origins of some self defeating behaviours as well as suggest treatments mainly using integrative (psychodynamic and person –centred) and cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) approaches. Strong emotions interfere with our brain and stop access to the logical thinking part of the brain. Take for example someone who is afraid of talking in public and finds it difficult to join in. They become nervous, anxious, fearful as a result and this shuts down the creative part of their brain. And there is a possibility that such a person lived through a kind of trauma when young for example being shut up by a teacher when trying to come up with an answer, being told off not to interrupt while the teacher was talking. Such a small child most probably felt terrified and humiliated and from then on every time when trying to say something in public a little voice from the unconscious warns that it is dangerous and

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