THE DEPRESSED CLIENT AND CBT The Oxford College notes (2006) define depression as a major affective disorder because it affects feelings‚ mood‚ and thoughts. Feltham and Dryden (1997) define depression as a short-lived mood or chronic condition characterised by hopelessness‚ apathy‚ meaninglessness‚ withdrawal‚ low self-esteem‚ sadness. Depression affects or reveals itself in sadness‚ dejection; depressed cognitions include negative evaluation of one’s self‚ the world and one’s future. Depressed
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Psychodynamic Therapy involves an exploration of a client’s past‚ particularly their childhood experiences. What is the value of exploring a client’s past in this approach? Thanks! Learning about the origins of where this theory came from was very interesting for me‚ as it was by accident when I first started to realise how much our earliest childhood experiences could damage and affect people. I actually thought prior to that realisation that I had an okay childhood‚ but the more I thought about
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The Psychodynamic Perspective The psychodynamic perspective focuses on the effects of unconscious factors effecting the nature in which we behave. This perspective also focuses on the relationship of childhood experiences effecting adulthood thinking and actions. This theory has many benefits such as being able to provide explanations for the various human behaviors. By looking back at childhood experiences it is believed with the psychodynamic perspective you will be able to find an explanation
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assumptions of the psychodynamic approach. [4] Outline two assumptions of the biological approach. [4] Outline two assumptions of the cognitive approach. [4] Outline two assumptions of the behaviourist approach. [4] Question 1b – Theory:- B) Describe Freud’s theory of personality development. [8] Describe Selye’s GAS Model. [8] Describe the Attribution Theory. [8] Describe the Social Theory of Aggression. [8] Question 2 – Therapy:- Describe how the psychodynamic approach has been
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DESCRIBE SOME OF THE WAYS THAT THE PERSON-CENTRED APPROACH (PCA) DIFFERS TO COGNITIVE BEHAVIOURAL (CBT) AND PSYCHODYNAMIC APPROACHES TO COUNSELLING. In order to be able to say what the differences are between PCT‚ CBT and Psychodynamic approaches to counselling I have first of all set out below a brief summary of all three; Person centred therapy concentrates mainly on the subjective experience of the client and on how they might lose touch with their own organismic experiencing through taking
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Running head: Humanistic‚ Psychodynamic and Structuralism James Price AIU PSY206 06 February‚ 2009 Humanistic‚ Psychodynamic and Structuralism I am going to discuss Humanistic theory‚ Psychodynamic theory and Structuralism. I will attempt to compare and contrast these three theories. The humanistic theory was headed by two psychologists‚ Abraham Maslow and Carl Rogers (Humanistic Theory‚ 2002). Their goal was to understand the personality and to improve the overall happiness of their patients
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A Comparative Study of the Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) and the Client-Centred Therapy via a Case Study Carl Jung once said‚ “It is the client who knows what hurts‚ where to go to‚ which problems are crucial and what experiences that have been deeply buried”. Those words implements that only a client would understand what he or she has gone through and sometimes‚ the need to talk to someone about their feelings happens to arise‚ whether it is in a form of seeking a direction or just enabling
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Assumptions and Definition Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT) addresses dysfunctional emotions‚ maladaptive behaviors‚ and cognitive processes. This is an effective treatment for patients who are dealing with anxiety and depression. CBT refers to a group of psychotherapies that incorporate techniques from cognitive therapy and behavior therapy. Albert Ellis and Aaron Beck are the two psychologists who came up with therapies. Beck developed the cognitive therapy (CT) that focuses on changing the
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The Psychodynamic Approach was developed by Sigmund Freud in the 1900. Freud main assumption is our behaviour is influenced by our unconscious mind and we are unaware of this‚ therefore Freud argued that we should focus on the unconscious mind rather than the conscious. Freud suggested that personality was split into three parts; the id‚ ego and superego. Freud suggested to have a healthy personality there had to be a balance between this three parts. Freud also suggested that childhood experiences
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people are unique and shows the different characters that individuals have. The psychodynamic viewpoint of personality helps understand what goes in an individual’s mind or the unconscious part of the mind. This essay first discusses the psychodynamic personality approach proposed by Freud. Secondly‚ it shows the importance of the theory and criticisms that have come about because of lack of scientific methods The psychodynamic personality approach suggests that personality is governed by unconscious
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