Both similarities and differences in these approaches will be brought to light and I will conclude with personal reflection. Motivational Interviewing came about initially as a way to help people dealing with substance abuse and addiction problems. Bill Miller and Steve Rollnick are the therapists that created Motivational Interviewing in the late 1970’s. To give background, in the late 1970’s the only requirement by the state to provide addiction counseling was that the provider be in recovery him/herself. This was because we had almost no research on what addiction actually was; therefore, we could not possibly introduce successful treatment modalities.
Describe how the cognitive approach has been applied to RET The cognitive approach believes that we are information processors. Our thinking and the way we process and interpret events can affect our behaviour particularly our mood. Therefore rational emotional therapy is linked to the approach because its attempts to change the way an individual interprets and thinks about certain events. Ret was devised by albert ellis in the 1950’s. it tries to tackle mustabatory thinking (the thinking that you must be good at everything and like by everyone) by trying to make the patient think more rationally about situations.
The 1970s saw the publication of the first American Psychiatric Association task force report on electroconvulsive therapy (to be followed by further reports in 1990 and 2001). The report endorsed the use of ECT in the treatment of depression. The decade also saw criticism of ECT. Specifically critics pointed to shortcomings such as noted side effects, the procedure being used as a form of abuse, and uneven application of ECT. The use of ECT declined until the 1980s, "when use began to increase amid growing awareness of its benefits and cost-effectiveness for treating severe depression".
Dialectical Behavioral Therapy Patricia Faison Grand Canyon University PCN 605 July 4, 2012 Dialectical Behavioral Therapy Your life is the sum result of all the choices you make, both consciously and unconsciously. If you can control the process of choosing, you can take control of all aspects of your life. You can find the freedom that comes from being in charge of yourself. (Bennet, 1982) Borderline personality disorder is a serious mental illness that is characterized by persistent uncertainty in moods, behaviors, interpersonal relationships, and self-image. Borderline personality disorder is also considered a disorder that causes emotional dysregulation and can be a great factor in the disruption of the family, long-term plans, sense of identity and work.
Personality theories are hypotheses, which look at the individual and try and understand the relationship between nature and nurture which forms the person’s way of being. Most people and psychologists would agree that both nature and nurture have an affect on who we eventually become, what is less universal is where the balance falls. As we grow our innate personality (nature) interacts with our environment (nurture) to produce who we are and during this we produce our own picture of who we are and our perceived place and worth in the world. However great or small the nurturing influence is believed to have, the greatest effects that nurture has on our ‘self’ is during childhood and I shall look at the effects of various
In The Medicated child, FRONTLINE confronts psychiatrists, researchers and government regulators about the risks, benefits and many questions surrounding the topic of prescribing drugs for children. Bipolar disorder was believed to exist only in adults but in the mid-1990s it began to be diagnosed in children more and more. “I think the real question is, are those diagnoses right? And in truth, I don't think we yet know the answer." said Dr. Steven Hyman, a former director of the National Institute of Mental Health.
Main Body CBT was pioneered by Dr A Beck in the 1960s. He was a psychiatrist at the University of Pennsylvania where he was researching the psychoanalytic concepts of depression. After discovering his research did not validate the psychoanalytic concepts of depression he began to develop his own theory. From his research he concluded that the driving forces of mental dysfunction are habitual, unrealistic, and self-defeating thoughts. He called them our “automatic thoughts,” and stated that they stem from our belief system and act as a go-between an event and the person’s behaviour or response to
Unit 2- Psychoanalytic Theory- Discussion The psychoanalytical personality theory is the theory developed by Sigmund Freud arguing that the human mind is structured into two parts. These two parts are the unconscious and conscious mind (Friedman & Schustack 2012). This theory focuses on what we as humans can remember and can easily bring into awareness and what we can’t bring into awareness without something triggering us to remember it. The focus of Freud’s theory is that much of what we dream is our unconscious thoughts and desires that affect our human behavior without even realizing it. Freud believed that “dreams are similar to icebergs—a little piece floats above the surface but much more is hidden underneath” (Friedman & Schustack 2012).
He placed these needs into the shape of a pyramid, in which the bottom layer consists of our lower motivational needs such as physiological needs, leading up to the top layer consisting of the higher motivational needs such as self-actualization. He believed that when a person satisfies their basic needs, they can then move up the pyramid to fulfill their higher needs. Abraham Maslow’s theory on human motivation is an accurate portrayal of how human needs affect their behavior. Many people have agreed with Maslow on his theory. In order for people to continue on with their daily tasks or life goals, they need to satisfy their most basic needs.
Process theory holds that if an outcome is to be duplicated, so too must the process which originally created it, and that there are certain constant necessary conditions for the outcome to be reached. When the phrase is used in connection with human motivation, process theory attempts to explain the mechanism by which human needs changes. Some of the theories that fall in this category are expectancy theory, equity theory, and goal setting[1] In management research, process theory provides an explanation for 'how' something happens and a variance theory explains 'why'. [2] Some theorists claim that all natural processes have complex phases in which the output state of the process is not determined by the input states of the processes. The condition is defined by Robert Rosen as being "complex".