Psych - Approaches, treatments, advantages/disadvantages

• -germs
• -genes
• -biochemistry
• -neuroanatomy

• -Drugs
• -Brain stimulation/Modification-----electroconvulsive therapy, Psychosurgery, TMS or DBS

• -grounded in mature sciences
• -has been successful in the past
• -removes responsibility from the individual
• -removes stigma of psychological problems

• -medical analogy often a poor one
• -Treatments have side effects
• -Removes responsibility from individual so they are less likely to be motivated to help themselves

• -underlying unconscious psychological forces.
• -dissociated trauma
• -problems represent dissociated emotions in need of expression, resolution.

• -Psychodynamic therapy
• -making repressed/dissociated forces conscious

• -Comprehensive--describes all problems of personality
• -Non-physical treatment
• -Notion that problems might be due to individual emotional experiences
• -developed an investigative/treatment method

• -Relies too heavily on case studies
• -Some ideas have not been supported
• -less cost effective (can take longer to work)
• ---False memories!!

• -Abnormal behavior acquired through classical and operant conditioning.
• -Everything comes down to irrational thinking
• -environmentalism (change the environment, change behavior)

• 1. A--event occurs
• 2. B--beliefs--irrational beliefs--leading to depression
• 3. C--emotional response

-Change how they think about things

• -Strong scientific basis (110 years experimental evidence)
• -Been successful in the past
• -compared to other treatments, therapy is brief/inexpensive

• -Superficial, treating symptons not underlying core problems
• -Not going to change biochemical imbalance

• -Constricted world view (doesn't know who they are)
• -lack of autonomy, responsibility

note--You are responsible for how you turn out, for being happy, "its all you"

• -Opening people up to new experiences
• -Helping them create meaning in their lives
• -Taking responsibility

• -It strikes a chord with people (answers are inside of them, self discovery)
• -have to treat the whole person, not just biochemical, or one traumatic event, or how often they cry. (treats the whole person)

• -Not as systematic as other models
• -least scientific of any models

-no individual problems. Always the problem of individuals dealings with greater society--family, social class, societal labels, ethnic/religious prejudices

• -Family therapy
• -Societal change

-The Only perspective to view external, societal forces in and of themselves as factors in abnormality.

• -Can't stand on it's own
• -Relies too heavily on case-study and epidemiological (area/culture) research
• -Many disorders are not culture specific
• -inability to predict onset in specific individuals