If we consider the topic of therapy in a general sense‚ the two most popular approaches are Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) and Psychodynamic Therapy (PDT). CBT is a form of therapy which deals with the conscious mind within the present moment. It focuses on a person’s current issues and problems such as generalised anxiety. The techniques of this therapy aim to change the way a person thinks and behaves in order to reduce symptoms of worry‚ panic‚ fear or inner conflict. Traditional CBT is generally
Premium Psychology Cognitive behavioral therapy Psychotherapy
Outline & evaluate the psychodynamic approach (12) The psychodynamic approach states that abnormality is caused by our libido (sexual desires) and our thantos (aggressive desires)‚ these are our id desires. The id is an irrational part of our personality and demands satisfaction and is ruled by the pleasure principle. The ego is a conscious part of the personality‚ as a child interacts with the world and the constraints of reality. It is therefore governed by the reality principle. The superego
Premium Sigmund Freud Id, ego, and super-ego Libido
Some examples: Person Centred approach uses methods such as reflection ‚ summary and giving the client space hopefully opening up a window for them to start to open up .However this may not be suited for everyone especially those who keep everything to themselves because in the past maybe that was their survival technique ‚ so in this case it may be beneficial to start with a psychodynamic approach ‚ where a counsellor use gentle word association ‚ and discussing set topics which might then enable
Premium Psychology Psychotherapy Therapy
Psychodynamic approach Assumes the importance of; - childhood experiences have a great influence on our adult lives‚ shaping our personalities. childhood events can remain in the unconscious + cause problems as adults Freud – all children go through 5 x psychosexual stages of development; - relationships Particularly family members and especially parent and child‚ used as a template for adult relationships. -the unconscious mind influences our behaviour. Often the conscious mind is unaware
Premium Psychology Sigmund Freud Psychoanalysis
University of Phoenix Material The Practice of Clinical Psychology Worksheet Answer the following questions. Your response to each question must be at least 150 words in length. .1 What are at least two legal issues associated with clinical psychology? Provide an example of a situation that could be legal but unethical. Explain your response. The first legal issue associated with clinical psychology is confidentiality. Whenever a patient seeks help‚ everything that is said in the sessions
Premium Psychology Clinical psychology Mental health professional
Discuss explanations for insomnia and/or narcolepsy. (8 marks + 16 marks) Explanations of narcolepsy are in majority biological. Scientists have discovered that narcoleptics often are lacking in hypocretin which is a chemical in the brain that control sleep and wakefulness. A lack of this chemical may explain the sudden attacks of sleep. Sakurai (2007) highlighted how there are about 10‚000-20‚000 hypocretin-producing cells in a normal hypothalamus‚ but people with narcolepsy have a significantly
Premium Schizophrenia Bipolar disorder Major depressive disorder
planning approach as he believed that solutions pertaining to social goods “cannot be technically derived; they must arise from social attitudes” (p. 331). In his perspective‚ planning is a political process and planners should advocate the interests of all groups who are concerned with planning decisions – to establish “urban democracy” and enable citizens to play a role in the decision-making process (p. 332). For Davidoff (1965)‚ “[p]luralism in support of political contention describes the process;
Premium Urban planning City Management
Outline and evaluate the Psychodynamic approach to abnormality (12marks) It claims that personality develops in childhood through a number of ‘psychosexual stages’ and that too much or too little pleasure at one of these can lead to fixation and abnormal behaviour. For example between the ages of two and four children are in the anal stage – too much focus on holding in faeces during this time can lead to an ‘anally retentive’ adult personality which is obsessively neat and tidy‚ in some cases leading
Premium Sigmund Freud Psychology
skills. In a humanistic approach counseling is practiced to help people to recognize and accept their own internal worth and to be congruent with their self. Psychotherapy and
Premium Counseling Psychology Sociology
However‚ as the unofficial “humanistic” approach gained momentum in the field‚ it received a lot of warning and criticisms. For example‚ in the 1960’s when there was a great emphasis on peace and justice from the ending of recent wars‚ Carl Rogers warned that the approach would not become permanent if it was made into a protest movement. The humanistic approach needed to be taken seriously‚ and if psychologists treated it as a “fad”‚ then the community will treat it as such as well. In order for
Premium United States Psychology Sociology