INTRODUCTION Constructive Psychotherapy is a theory that suggested that people constructed their own realities and found meaning based on life experience. Granvold (1996) shared that constructivism focused on human meaning making and promotes a person’s proactive participation in his or her life in order to create change. Constructivism is a process to help client understand present experiences‚ emotions and perceptions and how these elements are affected by events from the past‚ and how we make sense of our
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There are several theories and processes that can be applied to this situation to analyze why things happened the way that they did. The first theory that can be applied to this situation could be the Psychodynamic Theory. According to Freud‚ the “psychodynamic theory states that people experience conflict because of the tension arising from their intrapersonal (internal‚ psychological‚ emotional‚ and mental) states” (Cahn & Abigail‚ 2014‚ p. 57). I would argue that there are two misplaced conflicts
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deemed complete on its own‚ competing models have since developed to strive for the comprehensive means for treatment. For example‚ the biological model and the psychodynamic model take very different approaches on understanding thoughts and emotions. All models are unique and similar to each other‚ but the biological model and psychodynamic model seem to be the most extreme when compared to each other. The biological model takes on more of a medical perspective‚ which is somewhat self-explanatory
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Chapter 10 involves learning about personalities; psychodynamic‚ humanistic‚ trait‚ personological and life story‚ social cognitive‚ and biological perspectives. Personality is a pattern of enduring‚ distinctive thoughts‚ emotions‚ and behaviors that characterize the way an individual adapts to the world. Psychodynamic perspectives on personality emphasize that personality is primarily unconscious. The structures of personality are id‚ ego‚ and superego. The id consists of unconscious drives and
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Each perspective has their own strengths and weaknesses. Where the Psychodynamic approach comes under scrutiny for many reasons‚ suggesting that Freud’s ideas were extremely far fetched‚ the theory does allow us to realise that childhood is in fact a vital period of our life. However based on so little evidence‚ it seems impossible
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Freud. He developed the Psychodynamic or Psychoanalytical perspective to enable better understanding of human behaviour these concepts will be discussed further later in this study. After Freud opened the gateway other perspectives and approaches have been developed‚ now with five main areas of psychology - Cognitive‚ Behaviourist‚ Biopsychology and Humanist approaches. For a comparison with the Psychodynamic theory‚ Behaviourist Theory will be discussed. Psychodynamic theory is referred to in
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conscious one which is your current state of awareness. He believed that events in our childhood can have a remarkable influence on our behaviour as adult. He believed that‚ our behaviour is affected by our childhood experiences. It means that psychodynamic is about two major aspects: subconscious and our past. It can be seen that past
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include) Psychoanalytic/Psychodynamic: This set of approaches derives from Freudian theory. It focuses on the unconscious mechanisms that drive human emotions and behaviors. Childhood experiences and memories figure prominently in these approaches‚ as they are thought to drive each person’s psychological development. Psychoanalytic approaches are the most traditional; utilizing Freud’s initial ideas about the defense mechanisms and structure of personality. Psychodynamic approaches (such as Object-Relations
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Psychodynamic vs Trait Theory Founded by Sigmund Freud‚ the Psychodynamic theory is known for ignoring “the trappings of science and instead focus[ing] on trying to get ’inside the head ’ of individuals in order to make sense of their relationships‚ experiences and how they see the world” (McLeod‚ S.A.‚ 2007). By contrast Trait theory is “the measurement of consistent patterns of habit in an individual ’s behavior‚ thoughts‚ and emotions” (“Trait Theory”‚ 2013). While they are both methods of
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Psychodynamic Theory: According to this theory‚ what is in the unconscious plays a prominent role in mental health. The basis for developing a personality according to Freud are to have the id‚ ego‚ and the superego. The characteristic that the individual has to show for falling into the antisocial personality disorder according to the psychodynamic theory is that the individual has a strong id‚ but a much weakened superego. This can result in having no conscious behavior. According to this theory
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