Behavioral learning theory articulates that people cannot control negative circumstances‚ which leads them to feel helpless and makes them stop trying to change the situation for the good. This helplessness turns into a feeling of hopelessness which can also be termed as learned helplessness. The cognitive approach tries to explain that thoughts and beliefs contribute to the feeling of hopelessness. Automatic negative
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Case studies have helped psychologists obtain a patients background and medical history which contribute to leading the patient down the right path to recover. Understanding a patient’s background helps psychologists uncover ideologies that lead to the diagnosis of the patient’s condition. Once you are able to diagnose you can then speculate what treatment approach is best for the patient. In the case study I created Ashley shows early childhood trauma which starts her distorted image of herself
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Attachment theory is not considered a theory of psychotherapy‚ but a developmental psychodynamic theory‚ in that a child’s early development of attachment to a caregiver unconsciously impacts that child in forming adult attachments. Insecure attachment has been shown to negatively impact generations as a child with an insecure attachment may become a parent‚ who parents with an insecure attachment‚ this is said to be intergenerational transmission (Berzoff‚ Melano Flanagan‚ & Hertz‚ 2016). This
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the first to study cognitive development systematically. One of his major contributions is his theory of cognitive development. However‚ his theory has numerous limitations and has come under frequent criticism. This essay will analyse four limitations of Piaget ’s theory and provide alternative accounts. The first three limitations will be presented through a cultural‚ social‚ neuroscientific point of view‚ and finally‚ end with the problems of research methods used in Piaget ’s study to build his
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I will use include psychotherapy; also‚ known as “talk therapy”. Psychotherapy involves; Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT). Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is used by a therapist to restructure the mind of a traumatized person to think positively about the incident; instead of feeling guilty about what is not his fault. It is a coping skill that deals with the immediate trauma. In the case of Robert‚ cognitive behavioral therapy will help to redirect his thoughts that have made him to have extremely
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What is MBCT? Kabat-Zinn has developed the practice of combining CBT with mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) program and named it “Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy” (Segal et al.‚ 2013). Cognitive component includes education about depression‚ while mindfulness part covers meditation and simple yoga exercises (van der Velden et al.‚ 2015). Unlike CBT‚ where the focus is on the changing the thought context‚ MBCT patients observe the thoughts and learn to disengage from them. Therefore
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SOCU 301 Social Research Design Exercise 6.2 Name : Social Research Ethics For each case‚ (a) identify what you believe to be the one or two ethical issues that are most apparent in the situation‚ drawing from the ethical issues discussed on Babbie‚ pp. 63-81‚ and (b) explain why you think this case represents a minor‚ moderate‚ or severe ethical violation. 1. A political science instructor asks students in an introductory class to complete questionnaires that the instructor
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were adopted to enhance recovery and maintain abstinence. Cognitive behavioral therapy (referred later as CBT) was one of the most applied approaches in this field. CBT was originally designed to treat depression to help solving current problems by challenging maladaptive thoughts and behaviors. Now‚ CBT use was widened to involve substance-related disorders as well as other psychiatric disorders (Lee‚ 2013). CBT integrated both the cognitive and behavioral models and applied them to deal with substance
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Answers: What is your general impression of the meeting? This meeting put together several experts in the field of dynamical systems and its connections with problems in social and life sciences. Game theory was particularly emphasized. For me‚ as a young scientist‚ it was an amazing occasion to be in touch with senior scientists working on my field on interest. As the organizer of a special session‚ I could also bring together specialists whose work is closely related to mine. One of the speakers
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Coding Theory Case Study Alicia Griffin MTH 221 June 9‚ 2014 Howard Thomas Coding Theory Case Study What is Coding Theory? “Coding theory is the study of the properties of codes and their fitness for a specific application. Codes are used for data compression‚ cryptography‚ error-correction and more recently also for network coding. Codes are studied by various scientific disciplines – such as information theory‚ electrical engineering‚ mathematics‚ and computer science – for the purpose of designing
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