There is Coping Skills, which has an element of 'self-verbalisation' to ourselves and the result of the way we behave. This aims to reduce and prevent stress by teaching service users such as clients suffering from schizophrenia what to say and what to do during difficult situations such as feeling angry or paranoid. Problem-Solving Skills encourage clients to identify and define their problems, generate solutions to their problems and choose the best way to act on their problems and review their progress. Cognitive Restructuring aims to focus on challenging and modifying clients’ unrealistic or negative thoughts. Finally, Structural Cognitive Therapy aims at client's beliefs, which cause problems.
Empowerment – The strength of this approach aims to enable service users and clients to develop their inner recourses and power to address their problems they don’t treat the people, find causes or offer cures. Weaknesses: 1. Therapy takes place- Counsellors use the quality of their relationship to help people gain new insights to their life stories this isn’t practical for a ‘quick fix’. May achieve more changes in the way a person lives, causing it to take up more time and be expensive. (114) The strengths and weaknesses of behavioural approach Strengths: 1.
A comparison of the Behaviourist perspective and the Psychodynamic perspective in the context of health and social care The behaviourist perspective focuses on classical and operant condition. Behaviourists argue that, as behaviour can be learnt, it can also be unlearnt. Within health care this approach could be used in ‘aversion therapy’ whereby patients can be conditioned to avoid certain damaging behaviours such as drinking alcohol or smoking. By linking the substance with a drug that causes nausea or other unpleasant side effects the patient can be taught to avoid the substance. On the other hand the psychodynamic perspective would consider that people acquire an addictive personality because they are stuck in the ‘oral’ stage of development and compensate for their feelings of under gratification by smoking, drinking, or eating too much.
We should take into account these aspects when we are with a client in order to understand and appreciate what the experience of hypnosis is giving to them, in order for us to provide a better service to our clients. Hypnosis allows a person to control some physiological and psychological problems which they may have and is often used exactly for that purpose for example pain relief, weight loss, addiction, phobias, sleep deprivation, improvement in performance, depression, anxiety and panic. These all have some physiological and psychological aspects and hypnosis allows us to control them without the use of medication, just the power of the
Dr. Hart indicates that the result of unhealthy stress and anxiety can often come from human beings trying to take things to fast at a pace that can affect a person negatively. Dr. Hart encourages people to slow down and take the time focus on aiming towards a tranquil life by using natural tranquilizers that are formed in our own bodies that can promote a calmness and relaxation. Dr. Hart further explains the result of anxiety, coming from an absence of significant brain neurotransmitters, which are known as the
The patients must first identify emotions so they can monitor the intensity of each feeling (Waseem, 2012). It is good for the patient to be able to identify their emotions so they can work through whatever triggered the personality states to develop to protect the patient from their previous traumas. If the patient can identify their emotions and can predict what they will feel when dissociation happens, they will be able to better control their life. Lastly, the best way to help a patient with dissociative identity disorder is to help them create a crisis plan for when their everyday functioning is affected. The patient will have more control and anxiety will be lessened because they are prepared to handle their mental disorder (Waseem, 2012).
Discuss psychological therapies for obsessive compulsive disorder (8+16 marks) One behavioral therapy is Exposure and response prevention (ERP) therapy. The behavioral approach assumes that obsessions and compulsions are learned through conditioning and therefore for patients to recover they must unlearn these behaviors. ERP provides opportunities for re-conditioning the compulsions and obsessions the patient has learnt. Firstly the psychiatrist constructs a list of compulsions and obsessions using Y-BOCS and then is ranked by the patient from least to most anxiety provoking circumstances. The psychiatrist moves up the rank, enabling the patient to experience the feared stimulus and then learns to associate the stimulus with relaxation, until the anxiety subsides (habituation).
The psychological elements of hypnosis begin before the subject meets the therapist with a desire for someone to intervene and assist in altering a particular behaviour, or helping to disassociate from a learned behaviour which is causing the subject discomfort and creating a desire for change for now and for the future. At the point that the subject has demonstrated the willingness to surrender to the therapist they are anticipating a positive outcome and already anticipating a specific rapport with the therapist. Beyond that point it is important for therapist and subject to share a compatibility such that the subject can allow themselves to sufficiently surrender to the hypnotic treatment. That having been established the therapist may begin to induce an hypnotic trance by way of progressive muscle relaxation (PMR). Historically PMR was a means of achieving deep relaxation in the subject by means of tensing and relaxing of muscle groups throughout the body.
The current essay investigated the use of cognitive therapy in Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). It first explored the theoretical framework of cognitive therapy in terms of its assumptions and identification work of cognitive error. After that, it introduced several cognitive restructuring techniques that aim to alter one’s belief regards to the meaning of traumatic event and re-experience symptom. These techniques require PTSD patient to gather further evidence in order to challenge his/her distortion thought. Introduction Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is one of the anxiety disorders.
He is convinced this is the route he wants to take. The counselor listens carefully to what the client has to say, asks appropriate questions and engages in a clinically appropriate discussion. The counselor informs the client that although she is happy to continue working with him, she does not believe reparative/conversion therapy is effective and no empirical support exists for the approach. She further states that this form of therapy can actually be harmful to clients, so she will not offer this as a treatment. The client says he is disappointed that the counselor will not honor his wishes.