Evaluate 3 Approaches to treating Mental Disorders: Psychodynamic, Biological and Behavioural Approach. When looking at the treatment of people with mental health issues there have been various methods tried, some having limited success and some having long term success, in this essay I shall discuss the three listed in the title along with the benefits and weaknesses of each. Psychodynamic Approach: The concept of the psychodynamic approach is to explain behaviour in terms of the forces that drive it. The best known example of this approach is Freud’s theory of personality, although there are many other psychodynamic theories based on Freud’s ideas. Sigmund Freud was the first to challenge the view that mental disorders were caused by physical illness and proposed that psychological factors were responsible for the illness.
Behaviourists explain maladaptive behaviour in terms of the learning principles that sustain and maintain it. Discuss this statement and show how a behaviourists approach to therapy is in stark contrast to psychoanalytic one. INTRODUCTION Behavioural psychology, also known as behaviourism, is a theory of learning based upon the idea that all behaviours are acquired through conditioning. Conditioning occurs through interaction with the environment. According to behaviourism, behaviour can be studied in a systematic and observable manner with no consideration of internal mental processes.
The first orientation that I have chosen to use with this family is Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy. It was developed as a reaction to the psychodynamic approach (Tuttle, et al., 2003). It includes aspects of both Cognitive and Behavioral theories. Cognitive Theory suggests that people are influenced by their innate beliefs about themselves and the world around them. It assumes that human problems come from operating on faulty, irrational beliefs.
For example, one psychologist may use descriptive psychopathology to which will strive to provide answers for symptoms or mental illness. Either way, psychopathology is formally used to study mental illness or the distresses which may be affecting an individual. The issues of the abnormal psychology will assist in the study by the way we would use it in the attempt to capture interest, trigger concerns, and demands our attention. It also brings us to form and ask certain questions pertaining to any study. Psychopathology is not the same as psychopathy, which has to do with antisocial
Abstract An ideal form of the therapeutic process for individual counseling is comprised of techniques and theories taken from the Psychodynamic Approach, Cognitive-Behavioral Approach, Person-Centered Approach and behavior modification techniques that are found in Operant Conditioning. These individual counseling techniques were chosen based on how effective and relevant to the client, they were deemed to be. Techniques taken from the psychodynamic approach is to allow the client to become conscious of all unconscious or subconscious concerns through the use of transference and working alliance. Techniques taken from the cognitive-behavioral approach is to help the client identify any irrational beliefs and thinking that is the cause of the client’s emotional disturbance. In the person centered approach, the therapy focuses on an important human characteristic - the client’s natural ability for growth and development, through the use of self actualization.
Social neuroscience is a field that focuses on how biological methods and concepts refine theories of social behavior and processes. Studying the nervous system is another way to study the mind and body and how they relate. Physiological psychology uses surgical methods to better understand the mind and body issue. All fields of psychology work together to communicate findings and better understand the human body and
I will conclude with additional pluses and minuses of the client centred method of treatment & whether it provides all that a therapist needs to treat clients. Psychotherapy began as psychoanalytical in nature, thereafter the behavioral model of treatment started to come into fashion. This was proceeded by the person centred therapy developed by ‘Carl Rogers’ which falls into the humanistic therapy category. Whilst this and other humanistic theories and prior methods of treatment have continued, additional methods such as Cognitive therapy have emerged along with an eclectic therapy, where more than one method is used. ‘Carl Rogers’ focused on what he believed was each person’s desire and drive for self improvement and how he believed that each person possessed a natural desire to actualize their full potential and in essence wanted to achieve being the best that they could be.
Believe that people naturally seek out patterns in sensory information available to them. * Know the seven modern perspectives of psychology. Biophysiological perspective: perspective that attributes human and animal behavior to biological events occuring in the body, such as genetic influences, hormones and activity of the nervous system Sociocultural persepective: persective that focuses on the relationship between social behavior and culture. Cognitive perspective: focuses on mental processes such as memory, intelligence, learning, problem soliving and
A. Explain in detail what you like about this type of research? I like how they meet one on one with the clients to help learn different ways to deal with their bipolar disorder. See with bipolar disorder it is known as bipolar affective disorder, which is manic-depressive disorder, or manic depression, which is a mental illness classified by psychiatry as a mood disorder. (As quoted from articles and web articles).
Running head: Personality Theories Personality Theories PSY/211 Personality Theories The existence of personality theories correspond to how scholars analyze and assess the development of human identity and behavior. Each viewpoint provides a specific understanding of what cultivates personality and the corresponding factors that influence such behavior. One way to analyze personality is through the lens of psychoanalytic theory. The main argument of this theory is that problems or issues pertaining to psychology can be rooted to one’s unconscious (McLeod, 2007). Specifically, the problems are influenced by latent issues surfacing in the conscious mind.