One physiological method of treatment is Biofeedback. Physiological methods help people cope with the effects of stress by changing the way the body responds to it. With biofeedback the aim is to teach the client how to relax. The person learns how to regulate the symptoms of stress in real-life stressful situations. There are 4 steps involved.
This also includes the concept of the Safe Surrogate Release which is an enjoyable physical activity to release stress in a healthy way. In the end I state what I have learned from this book. A Book for the Seriously Stressed: How to Stop Stress from Killing You Having stress in life is healthy, but when it becomes too much that’s when we have to know how to handle it in a healthy way or it will lead us on a path to destruction. Stress is a normal part of life. We just need to understand it and know the physical symptoms and the defense mechanism to use against it if things went bad.
This means that it is expensive and can only be commenced with specialist supervision. The aim with biofeedback is to reduce symptoms associated with stress, such as reducing heart rate or muscle tension. This can be a disadvantage as it does not treat the source of stress. However, it does provide the patient with longer lasting means of dealing with stress symptoms by applying relaxation
One of the major strengths of questionnaires is their practicality. The fact that they are cheap and easy to create means that sociologists can target a high number of parents in a small period of time. Time is saved because the researchers would not need to
Questionnaires are valued by positivists for allowing to establish cause and effect relationships while interpretivist see them as the least valuable method of research. Primarily, one of the main practical disadvantages is the low response rate. In Shere Hite’s research in 1991 on ‘love, passion and emotional violence the response rate was only 4.5. Given this low figure, the excruciating importance of drawing generalisations is lost. The research is, therefore, unrepresentative of interests of wider population.
Counseling compared to psychotherapy, has a shorter term of treatment and treats a specific problem or issue. Counselling encourages its client to have a change in behaviour that is causing them problems. They guide its clients to figure out the solutions to their issues on their own. Unlike coaching, it deals more with emotional and behavioural problems of its clients. And mentoring motivates its clients by sharing their own experiences to their client to help them improve their performance in the same field.
Secondly, the use official statistics is a very cheap method for a sociologist to use because it doesn’t cost them anything as the information is already gathered and there for most people to use and look at. The only time where official statistics may not be available is in a schools data network as pupil data is confidential so the sociologist may not be able to access this data. Thirdly, the sociologist can gather very large samples of data which can help their investigation be quite representative, as the higher the sample number the more it represents the population being studied. Patterns and trends can also be measured with a large sample size and can be put into graphs and categorised. They can also be used to test hypothesis via the use of triangulation.
This is relatively due to the utilization of unprocessed or whole medications such as herbs in curing a patient. Naturopathy is labeled as pseudoscience lacking scientific basis in justifying its modalities. Critics said that they are not subjected in detailed and vigorous health assessments. According to Stephen Barett: Naturopaths assert that their "natural" methods, when properly used, rarely have adverse effects because they do not interfere with the individual's inherent healing abilities. This claim is nonsense.
Your therapist helps you identify negative thoughts and evaluate how realistic these thoughts are. Then, he or she teaches you to “unlearn” negative thought patterns and “learn” new, helpful ones. CBT is a problem-solving approach. You cannot control other people or situations, but you can control the way you perceive and react. CBT teaches you the skills to change your thinking and manage your reactions to stressful people and situations.
My silent role in the larger group might be because I feel that I am quite self conscious and do not want to be judged negatively or perceived wrong. Psychologist Carl Rogers believes that low self esteem inhibits your “freedom to respond to people the way you would like to” (Bolstad, 2004, p. 33). In smaller groups I am able to openly express myself due to me feeling safer and being able to easier gauge how people are thinking and reacting. In these small groups I take on a co-ordinator role (Benne & Sheats, 1948, cited in Borchers, 1991) by being able to show the group the relationships between ideas. Over time I was able to open up to the larger group and actively made the effort to be more involved in whole group discussions.