Cognitive Behavioral Therapy There are types of models that are designed to help individuals who have issues, but one model may not be completely effective without the use of another model in certain individuals. When working with juveniles that come from different backgrounds that adults have never seen, many approaches have to be used when working with them. I believe that cognitive behavioral therapy is the most effective model when dealing with these juveniles. Behavioral therapy is designed to focus on an individual’s behavior to change his or her behavior. In residential treatments, behavioral therapy could work well with play therapy because the children who stay in a treatment facility might have not of had a perfect childhood and these children might not know how to play.
Technology, when used properly, may aid a society’s development, but overall the extent of what technology may accomplish could hinder rather than progress society’s growth. Ray Bradbury conveys this message in Fahrenheit 451 with the use of specific aspects of technology unique to the story’s society. This leads to the realization by the reader that when technology is abused, its use may develop into an extremely harmful addiction. While many devices are mentioned in the book, one such example of harmful technology is the stomach pump. The stomach pump is a medical device used to replace the bad material inside of a person’s body.
Abnormality is associated with change in brain or bodily functions. Neuroanatomy which believes that mental illnesses related to the physical structure of the brain; abnormal structure of the brain can lead to abnormal behaviour. For example, individuals with schizophrenia have been found to have enlarged spaces in their brain which indicates shrinking of brain tissue (Lawrie & Abukmeil, 1998). The development of the brain and body can be influenced by. Brain scans can be used to help diagnose some disorders.
How Alcohol Affects the Central Nervous System Alcohol can affect several parts of the brain, but in general, alcohol contracts brain tissue and depresses the central nervous system. When alcohol reaches the brain, it interferes with communication between nerve cells, by interacting with the receptors on some cells. The alcohol suppresses excitatory nerve pathway activity and increases inhibitory nerve pathway activity. Among other actions, alcohol enhances the effects of the inhibitory neurotransmitter GABA. Enhancing an inhibitor has the effect of making a person sluggish.
Psychopharmacology and the Mental Health Counselor Knowledge of psychopharmacology is essential for counselors because ethical guidelines require counselors to remain current on scientific and professional information in their realm of practice. There has been a significant increase of individuals being prescribed psychotropic medication especially children. King and Anderson (2004) suggest that current research of the brain indicates that psychotherapy along with psychotropic medication is more effective than psychological treatment alone. Although counselors are not permitted to prescribe medication, recent finding displays the need for counselors to have knowledge on current psychotropic medications, their uses, and more importantly side effects. Although one ethical limitation of a counselor is that they are not able to prescribe medication, the counselor still plays a major role in the clients overall treatment, to include medication.
Other factors such as traumatic brain injury, biological issues, and exposure to chemicals or viruses can contribute to mental disorders as well. Individuals suffering from mental illnesses are often shunned or ignored by the rest of society. State and national statistics are revealing indicators of the impact of mental illness on our population. For this reason, the needs of the mentally ill are specifically addressed by Healthy People 2020. As nurses we are obligated to help treat this population.
Abstract Cognitive behavior therapy is mostly used to treat depression, anxiety disorders, phobias, and mental health, but it has also been shown to be valuable in treating alcoholism and drug addiction, especially as part of an overall program of recovery. Cognitive-behavioral coping skills treatment is a short-term, focused therapeutic approach to helping drug-dependent people become abstinent by using the same learning processes the person used to develop alcohol and drug dependence initially. Introduction Cognitive behavior therapy is based on the idea that feelings and behaviors are caused by a person's thoughts, not on outside stimuli like people, situations and events. People may not be able to change their circumstances, but they can change how they think about them and therefore change how they feel and behave, according to cognitive-behavior therapists. In the treatment for alcohol and drug dependence, the goal of cognitive behavioral therapy is to teach the person to recognize situations in which they are most likely to drink or use drugs, avoid these circumstances if possible, and cope with other problems and behaviors which may lead to their substance abuse.
Although the syndrome is relatively rare, it varies diversely within the case studies (Biran, Giovannetti, Buxbaum, & Chatterjee, 2006). For this reason, the disorder is a bizarre and puzzling research subject for scientists, and the Alien Hand Syndrome term is used more as an umbrella term to cover multiple different syndromes. Further in the text, I would like to discuss these sets of symptoms and introduce the theory why the Alien Hand Syndrome phenomenon occurs. One of the main things diagnosed when observing AHS sufferers is inability to inhibit the alien hand. Despite the fact that the alien limb can function normally at times, there are occasions when it does not respond to the patients’ intentions.
They use it as a crutch to deal with the emotions of an controlled environment much like people in the real world do with an uncontrolled environment. The uses of drugs in the book and in the real world are used to solve problems in ways that are healthy and unhealthy. Drugs in both worlds also create problems by not allowing a person to feel what he or she should feel in order to be a healthy functioning living human. Prozac, Ritalin, Zoloft, and Adderall all have one thing in common; they are used to help people that have a difficult time function properly in the world. People with ADD or ADHD cannot concentrate in school or do common task without being distracted without their medication.
Much of the research into eyewitness testimony (EWT) derived from the cognitive approach, therefore much of the evidence is based on the scientific method, such as the use of laboratory studies. Bartlett first proposed the theory that memory is not always a complete reproduction of a witnessed event. He argued that memory is reconstructed from various pieces of information. Thus memories can be inaccurate. We reconstruct the past by trying to make it fit into our existing understanding of the world, by making it more logical, coherent and generally sensible.