Evaluating the Psychological Therapies & Biological therapies PART B: OTHER MEDICAL THERAPIES FOR PSYCHOLOGICAL DISORDERS By Konstantinos Geros THE BIOMEDICAL APPROACH Biomedical therapies seek to treat psychological disorders by changing the brain’s chemistry with drugs‚ its circuitry with surgery‚ or its patterns of activity with pulses of electricity or powerful magnetic fields Biomedical therapies assume an organic basis for mental illnesses and treats them as diseases
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Abstract Acupuncture therapy has been known as a practice related to oriental medicine‚ and recently has been detected as a potential therapeutic tool for which there is good scientific evidence. Depression and anxiety are usually classified as mental illnesses and it is more useful to think of them as disturbances in brain health‚ which is directly related to the physical makeup and brain mechanisms and emotional and relational issues. The ancient Chinese practice of acupuncture could be used for
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Is Clozapine an effective treatment for schizophrenia? What is schizophrenia and what are the symptoms – Figure 1 Schizophrenia is a brain disorder which can affect a person’s mental well-being. Suffering from schizophrenia can terrify people and make them withdrawn from family and friends or make them extremely agitated. Some people with the disorder are known to hear voices‚ believe people are trying to harm them or are reading their minds. The exact cause is unknown‚ however many scientists
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Evidence based practices in Multi-Systemic Therapy (MST)‚ is it working or what can we do to make it better. Purpose To maximize Evidence Based Practices (EBD) in multi-systemic therapy in order to encourage each client/caregiver opinion toward a more optimistic view of the multi-systemic therapy process. “EBP implies that there is a definable outcome(s)” (Evidence-Based Practices‚ 2015). The goal is to get the client to take ownership in his/her behavior. EBP is to be used as a method for getting
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Cognitive approach The cognitive approach focuses on the way information is processed by humans. It looks at how we as individuals treat information and how it leads to responses. Cognitive psychologists study internal processes such as attention‚ language‚ memory‚ thinking and perception. The main assumption of this approach is that in when information is received it is then processed by the brain and this processing directs how we as individuals behave or justify why we behave the way we
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Crucial Phase In the crucial phase‚ an individual’s tries to geographically escape‚ memory blackouts are increased‚ decrease their ability to stop using‚ and their efforts to control fail repeatedly (The Watershed Addiction Treatment Programs‚ 2014). They also avoid their family and friends‚ experience work and money troubles‚ and neglect food. James mixed alcohol and heroin to the point where he could not remember what happened that night. He geographically relocates and moves from California to
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American Psychological Association 0021-9010/10/$12.00 DOI: 10.1037/a0019985 Get Smarty Pants: Cognitive Ability‚ Personality‚ and Victimization Eugene Kim and Theresa M. Glomb University of Minnesota Drawing on the victim precipitation model‚ this study provides an empirical investigation of the relationship between cognitive ability and victimization at work. We propose that people high in cognitive ability are more prone to victimization. In this study‚ we also examine the direct and moderating
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Cognitive behavioural and psychodynamic approaches to therapy seem to offer contrasting modes of treatment for psychological difficulties‚ largely due to the fact that they originate from very different theoretical and philosophical frameworks. It seems likely‚ therefore‚ that treatment for a woman experiencing depression‚ anxiety and feelings of inadequacy will proceed along very different lines according to each approach. There do appear to be some features‚ however‚ which are common to all effective
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Oxygen is of life-saving importance in the treatment of COPD. Lung function impairment is poorly reversible; therefore‚ treatment strategies must be aimed at stabilizing the disease progression (Simmons & Simmons‚ 2004). In advanced COPD‚ like the patient at Fairview Southdale‚ hypoxemic and/or hypercapnic respiratory failure may develop and may be treated with long-term oxygen therapy (Simmons & Simmons‚ 2004). In general‚ low flow rates via nasal cannula are recommended
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symptomology and case history‚ I believe Adlerian therapy would be most beneficial because Adlerian therapy stresses on the unison of persona‚ the need to view people from their biased point of view‚ and the significance of life goals that provide a path to behavior. This approach will help the client become motivated by social interest and allow her to find goals that give her life meaning. Therapy is a matter of providing encouragement and assisting clients in changing their cognitive perspective.
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