The Biological Approach to psychology focuses on the body‚ with emphasis on the brain and nervous system. Psychologists attempt to examine our behavior and our mental processes through our physiological reactions to situations in the world around us. One such example is the way your heartbeat increases when you’re scared‚ our how your palms perspire when you lie. There’s no true way to tell exactly how many biological systems are influenced by our thoughts and feelings‚ but thanks to advances in
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Describe the behaviourist approach in psychology and evaluate the research methods used by behaviourist psychologists (10 marks) Behaviourists regard all behaviour as a response to a stimulus. They assume that what we do is determined by the environment we are in‚ which provides stimuli to which we respond‚ and the environments we have been in in the past‚ which caused us to learn to respond to stimuli
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Care Programme Approach (CPA) Background The Care Programme Approach (CPA) has been called the cornerstone of the Government’s mental health policy. It was introduced in 1991 and is intended to be the basis for the care of people with mental health needs outside hospital. It applies to all people with serious mental health problems who are accepted as clients of specialist mental health services. In many cases‚ the CPA comes into play while someone is a psychiatric hospital in-patient (not
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Unit 11: Understand Mental Wellbeing and Mental Health Promotion Unit code: CMH 301 Unit reference number: F/602/0097 QCF level: 3 Credit value: 3 Guided learning hours: 14 Unit summary This unit aims to provide the learner with an understanding of the key concepts of mental wellbeing‚ mental health and mental health promotion. It focuses on the range of factors that can influence mental wellbeing and how effectively to promote mental wellbeing and mental health with individuals and groups
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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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professionals aim as an ultimate outcome measure when a patient is presented to a care environment. Even though all parties join forces to achieve recovery‚ perspectives of recovery vary among different disciplines (Huiting‚ 2013). Recovery in the mental health setting refers to the “process of changing one’s attitudes‚ values‚ feelings‚ goals‚ and skills in order to live a satisfying life within the limitations caused by illness” (Anthony‚ 1993). In physical health context‚ recovery is recognized
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Behaviourist approach This approach refers to behaviour being mainly influenced by the environment also by reinforcing rewards for positive behaviour and punishments for negative behaviour. B.F. Skinner investigated Operant Conditioning of voluntary and involuntary behaviour. He explained that behaviour occurs for a reason‚ and the three main behaviour shaping techniques are positive reinforcement‚ negative reinforcement and punishment. Behaviourism has been criticised in the way it under-estimates
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The second therapy approach that could be used for the workplace issue mentioned earlier is Cognitive Therapy (CT). Cognitive Therapy is based on the fact that thoughts and perceptions impact a person’s feelings and behaviour. It looks at ways to reassess negative thoughts‚ allowing individuals to learn more flexible and positive ways of thinking. It aims to change the way a person thinks about stressful situations and their ability to cope with stress‚ thus influencing the client’s behaviour. Cognitive
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To what extent is natural law the best approach to ethical desicion making. Natural law was thought of by a 13th century monk called Thomas Aquinas. He was inspired by a Greek a posteriori philosopher called Aristotle who came up with the efficient cause and believed that a humans purpose is to reach eudaimonia. Aristotle’s thoughts were inspired by the stoics who were a group of Greek philosophers who believed God is everywhere and in everyone there is a divine spark. Natural law is based on the
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Preventing Youth Violence with a Strength Based Approach CYC 100A Youth violence is classified by acts that expand from bullying‚ sexual assault and physical fighting to homicide. According to WHO (2013)‚ “youth violence has become a global public health problem”‚ which needs to be appropriately dealt with; the strengths-based approach is the most effective way to facilitate behavior modification‚ rather than the use of punishment‚ such as incarceration. The way to prevent youth violence is
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