Evaluating the Psychological Therapies & Biological therapies PART B: OTHER MEDICAL THERAPIES FOR PSYCHOLOGICAL DISORDERS By Konstantinos Geros THE BIOMEDICAL APPROACH Biomedical therapies seek to treat psychological disorders by changing the brain’s chemistry with drugs‚ its circuitry with surgery‚ or its patterns of activity with pulses of electricity or powerful magnetic fields Biomedical therapies assume an organic basis for mental illnesses and treats them as diseases
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Professor Yankee 11/19/12 Music Therapy Why do people use this type of therapy exactly? Well music has been used as medicine for thousands of years and there’s a growing field of health care known as music therapy‚ which uses music to heal. Those who practice music therapy find benefits in using it to help cancer patients‚ children with ADD‚ and others‚ and even hospitals are beginning to use music therapy to help with pain management‚ to help ward off depression‚ to promote movement‚ to
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Cognitive Behaviour Therapy; The Treatment Of Richard Faulty or maladaptive cognitions are negative thoughts and beliefs about ourselves‚ others or situations that can reinvent themselves as a number of ways including depression‚ anxiety‚ self pity and manifest outwardly as negative or faulty behavior such as violence‚ extreme mood swings‚ eating disorders or substance misuse. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is an action therapy that focuses on current behavior‚ Corey (2001). CBT recognizes the
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Reality Therapy Founders of Theory: William Glasser Nature of the Person • Our brain functions as a control system. It continually monitors our feelings to determine how well we are doing in our lifelong effort to satisfy these needs. Whenever we feel bad‚ one or more of these five needs is unsatisfied. • We are not born as blank slates waiting to be externally motivated by forces in the world around us. We are born with five genetically encoded needs: survival‚ love
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Freedman‚ J.‚ & Combs‚ G. (1996). Narrative therapy: The social construction of preferred realities. New York: W. W. Norton & Company. White‚ M. & Epston D. (1990). Narrative Means to Therapeutic Ends. New York: W. W. Norton & Company. Gilligan‚ S.G. & Price‚ R. (1993). Therapeutic Conversations. New York: W.W. Norton & Company. Chrzastowski‚ S.K. (2011). A narrative perspective on genograms: Revisiting classical family therapy methods. doi: 10.1177/1359104511400966 2011 16:
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freedom to choose and creating meaningful life. Existential isolation refers to the fact that no matter how close we may find ourselves to another person‚ there is a fundamental separateness that we cannot remove. This ultimate alonesess of the human condition is that we enter and leave the world alone despite our best wishes (Bauman & Waldo‚ 1998) Again I think that this condition is not something to be feared. Many people would rather avoid talking about and relating these basic conditions
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Running Head: Family Systems Therapy Adlerian Family Therapy Chandra S. McCray Mississippi College Background Information Family systems therapy is based on the concept that individuals are best understood through evaluating the entire family. Symptoms in individuals are seen as a result in dysfunctions in their family system. The family is an interactional unit and a change in one member affects all members. Family therapists believe that an individual’s relations with family have more
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from the problem and the problem is disempowered. This process is summed up in the statement‚ “The person is not the problem‚ the problem is the problem.” 3. A narrative takes form and the deconstructive process continues with “why” and “how” questions. 4. The therapist encourages family to remember unique outcomes when they showed competence and strength. These unique outcomes become the basis for a more positive narrative. 5. The process of creating this new story is called re-authoring. These
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Parents have the right to genetically engineer their children before birth. There are two areas of this technology one that modifies and enhances the natural human capacity while the other is therapeutic and heals. To be able to genetically change genes for therapy reasons should not be arguable. Therapeutic reasons consist of cancer‚ obesity‚ and depression. All these issues can be fixed by genetically controlling genes that may be the cause of them. It is important to continue research for this
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My favorite model and the model that I feel the most comfortable using is structural family therapy. In the early 1990’s I worked at the Philadelphia Child Guidance Center as a Family Service Counselor working with a research project that provided support and resources for families who have been affected by addiction. Even though we were not providing therapy‚ there is a requirement that we study structural family therapy and learn about Minuchin’s philosophy. Their study method was in the form
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