Play therapy is what it sounds like‚ a tool that provides therapy through play. What counseling and psychotherapy aim to do for adults‚ play therapy aims to do for children. Play therapy encourages the expression of a child’s feelings‚ experiences‚ and cognitive functioning. It is seen as being able to be easier for young children ages 2-11 to unleash their feelings. In adults it is harder to use this therapy though. Play therapy is often used as a tool of diagnosis. Children will engage in "play
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Journal of Abnormal Psychology‚ Vol 82(2)‚ Oct 1973‚ 324-334. Psychodynamic Practice: Individuals‚ Groups and Organisations Volume 20‚ Issue 1‚ 2014 Psychodynamic Psychiatry Volume 42‚ 2014 The Efficacy of Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy and Psychodynamic Therapy in the Outpatient Treatment of Major Depression: A Randomized Clinical Trial Ellen Driessen‚ Ph.D.; Henricus L. Van‚ M.D.‚ Ph.D.; Frank J. Don‚ M.Sc.; Jaap Peen‚ Ph.D.; Simone Kool‚ M.D.‚ Ph.D.; Dieuwertje Westra‚ M.Sc.; Mariëlle Hendriksen
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Cognitive Dissonance How do human beings make decisions? What triggers a person to take action at any given point? These are all questions that I will attempt to answer with my theoretical research into Leon Festinger’s theory of cognitive dissonance‚ as well as many of the other related theories. We often do not realize the psychological events that take place in our everyday lives. It is important to take notice of theories‚ such as the balance theory‚ the congruency theory and the cognitive
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(pg 605–638) Treatment of Psychological Disorders Modern mental health therapies can be classified into two main categories – favored treatment depends on disorder and therapist’s viewpoint Learning-related disorders (phobias) are usually treated with psychotherapy Biologically influenced disorders (schizophrenia) usually treated with biomedical therapy – prescribed medication/medical procedure that acts directly on the patient’s nervous system Usually patients receive combination of drug and
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Cognitive psychology studies how information is processed by the brain and sense organs. It is concerned with issues of how people perceive‚ understand‚ make decisions about and remember information. Cognitive approach is learning through mental representation‚ this is what we call schemas. Our mental representations are the meaning that we give to objects‚ people and events that we experience. We used this to solve problems and make sense out of the world. The information we use to create a
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Drug Court Treatment 1 DRUG COURT TREATMENT AND SUCCESS Enhancing Drug Court Success and the Logic of Coerced Treatment Amanda M. Welker Idaho State University Drug Court Treatment 2 DRUG COURT TREAMENT AND SUCCESS This paper is about two articles on Drug Court. The first one is‚ “Drug Courts and the Logic of Coerced Treatment.” And the second one is‚ “Enhancing Drug Court Success.” Both of these article look at the different types of treatment that Drug Court
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Cognitive Theory Name University Course Tutor Date Introduction In this paper it will show that social cognitive theory is my main focus from a wide range of theories outlined in the course syllabus. The theory was proposed by Miller and Dollard in 1941. The theory was later expanding by Walters and Bandura with the principles in observational
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Introduction Cognitive failure is defined as absent-mindedness‚ that is‚ mistakes or errors people make because of slips of attention or memory failure (Reason and Mycielska‚ 1982). Their origin has been traced to memory problems‚ attention problems errors in the implementation of intentions or errors caused by distractions. It also involves clumsiness and problems in social interactions or problems in processing information. Mostly students are prone to experience cognitive failure. If
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and efficiency of using the cognitive-behavioral approaches. The article states that cognitive-behavioral approaches have proven to be verifiably effective for treating a wide range of clinical disorders such as depression. Although this approach has been used for years‚ techniques that are used to help people accept and distance themselves from harsh thoughts and emotions are less underlined because of the focus of changing the content of cognitions in Cognitive Therapy. The group who have written
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Piaget’s theory of cognitive development consists of four evident phases. The first is referred to as the sensorimotor stage. This stage typically occurs between birth and two years of age. During the sensorimotor stage children at first rely solely on the reflexes (sucking and rooting for example) that they were born with. Intelligence manifests itself through motor activities‚ for example children learn to crawl and walk during this stage. Most of the knowledge acquired during this stage is through
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