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
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The Psychodynamic Approach Key Assumptions: * Assumes that a large part of out mental life operates at an unconscious level * It is assumed that unconscious sexual and aggressive instincts drive behaviour * The personality is made up of the id‚ the ego and the superego‚ which are in constant conflict * Defence mechanisms protect individuals from anxiety producing thoughts * It is assumed that early childhood experiences are important to understanding current behaviour
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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
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Cognitive Behavioral Approach In the 1950s‚ the prevailing tradition in psychology was that of the Behaviorist perspective. It focused on outward human and animal behavior as opposed to internal mental states like consciousness and thought. Though these constructs are not observable‚ they could not be ignored. The notion that these internal states do result in outward behavior set the stage for the cognitive revolution. Application of a dual (cognitive and behavioral) approach to explaining behavior
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Organizational Leadership LDR/531 Behavior Approach Leadership February 25‚ 2013 Timothy De Long Over the years‚ there have been many studies developed to evaluate and study leadership. The concept is to understand the nature of leadership in the workplace. Researcher’s examined the traits‚ influences and behaviors of effective leaders since the early 1900’s. "All leaders have the capacity to create a compelling vision‚ one that takes people to a new
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Compare and contrast the various personality theories: Psychodynamic perspective‚ Behavioral and Social Cognitive perspective‚ Humanistic perspective‚ and Trait perspective) and discuss which perspective you think is most applicable. Support your argument (based on what you learned‚ examples‚ etc). Psychodynamic Perspectives- view personality as being primarily unconscious and as developing in stages. Psychodynamic theorists believe that behavior is merely a surface characteristic and that to truly
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learning focuses on the people learning by observation. ‘Monkey see‚ monkey do’! Cognitive approach is centered on the thinking about the behavior before action. Constructivists considerhow the learning and teaching
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Summary The psychodynamic approach is a theory that has several different ways to look at leadership skills. The foundation of the concept is that many leadership skills are based on personality and the unconscious mind. According to Northhouse‚ a good leader must be aware of their personality and accept their personality completely. The psychodynamic approach is not only based on personality‚ but it is also based on how humans interact with other humans within a work environment (Nothhouse
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The psychodynamic approach was established by Sigmund Freud‚ a neurobiologist who later studied the psychology of the mind. The psychodynamic approach was founded around the fact that mental disorders occurring from emotional issues in the unconscious of our mind‚ which Freud believed derived from childhood experiences (the relationship the patient had with their parents as this would determine their mental capabilities.) The unconscious mind was described through an iceberg analogy. The iceberg
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Checkpoint: Psychotherapies Michael Lawson BEH/225 5/1/2014 Check point: Psychotherapies Psychotherapy is a psychological technique that can bring about positive changes in personality‚ behavior‚ or personal adjustment (Coon & Mitterer‚2013). There are many therapies that help people learn how to be more positive and helps a person adjust the way they behave or look at themselves. The Three types of psychotherapies that this paper will summarize by discussing the main tenets of each therapy
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