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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Compare and contrast how the psychodynamic and person-centred approaches to counselling understand the person‚ and how these two approaches explain psychological distress experienced by individuals. In part 2 reflect on and write about which of the two models appeals most to you and why? INTRODUCTION Psychodynamic and person-centred approaches to counselling have many differences in the way they understand the person and explain psychological distress. Part one below reviews both approaches
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are solutions to every problem‚ one be better than the next. Here we will look at two different approaches in explaining the psychodynamic approach and the behavioral approach. Behavior theory is becoming more and more popular because of the emphasis this approach places on teaching self management skills to better control a persons life‚ all without continued therapy. A basic assumption of behavioral perspective is that all problematic behaviors‚ conditions and emotions have already been learned
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Psychodynamic Counselling – Overview. Psychodynamic counselling has a long history and vast literature to condense so only a brief overview is possible here – following on from the themes already discussed and with particular focus on four psychologists: Freud‚ Jung‚ Adler and Klein. “The primary purpose of psychodynamic counselling is to help clients make sense of current situations; of memories associated with present experience‚ some of which spring readily to mind‚ others which may rise
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violently. We are all valuable to all kinds of influences (Siegel‚ 2015‚ p. 9). In this essay‚ I will demonstrate how two criminal theories (rational choice theory & psychodynamic theory) can explain how crime is committed. These two theories will relate on the summary article below regarding the‚
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utilized by therapist Paul to examine and treat his patients. In the case of Sophie‚ a sixteen year old gymnast who attempted suicide multiple times‚ Paul adopts a psychodynamic orientation in order to uncover the reasons behind her unstable emotions. Derived from Freud’s psychoanalytic theory‚ the primary focus of psychodynamic therapy is to increase the client’s self-awareness by revealing the unconscious content of the mind that may be causing emotional distress. The treatment process is unique
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In this essay I mainly discuss the theory and concepts behind psychodynamic counselling‚ followed by brief discussions of the practice and skills involved in working as a psychodynamic counsellor‚ and the client’s experience of counselling. Theory/concepts Psychodynamic counselling is mainly concerned with unconscious processes; it takes for granted that humans possess a largely unconscious inner world. Freud argued that while the conscious mind is governed by logic‚ the unconscious mind is
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’Meta-analyses have established that different psychotherapies have different outcomes. Cognitive-behavioural therapies are significantly more effective than psychodynamic therapies‚ and their superiority increases when long-term follow-up is assessed. Hypnosis enhances the efficacy of both psychodynamic and cognitive-behavioural psychotherapy’. (Kirsch‚ 1996) Clinical Hypnosis is natural and safe. Hypnosis is essentially a cognitive (thought) process. It is a natural process which we all have
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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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Describe the contributions to society of the Cognitive and Psychodynamic Approaches‚ and compare the two approaches in terms of their scientific status (18) The Cognitive Approach provides two contributions to society; Reliability of Eyewitness Testimonies and Cognitive Interviews. The cognitive interview technique has been developed from a number of models of memory and forgetting from the cognitive approach‚ which is used to interview eyewitnesses of crimes. The major two contributors are cue-dependency
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