Psychopathology evaluation
some evaluation points for the defintions and treatments of abnmormality
- Created by: william logue
- Created on: 30-05-13 16:10
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- Pyschopathology evaluation points
- Therpaies
- Pyschoanalysis
- Borgias (1971) - found that 80% of paitents benefitted from pyscgo analysis
- Time consuming and very costly
- Therapist may plant false memories in patient.
- Electro-convulsive therapy
- Side effects - nausea headaches and permenant or temporary amnesia
- Ethical issues
- Very effective - has been around for 70+ years
- Systematic desenstitisation
- requires very little effort from the patient
- doesnt look at where the phobias have come from.
- Over 75% of patients respond to treatment
- Chemotherapy
- Ease of use
- Side effects - insomnia , nausea and sucidal thoughts
- When combined with family intervention the risk of relapse drops to 2%
- REBT
- Can be used on a variety of phobias
- Doesn't take into account the context of which the phobias arose
- Unsucsesful if the patient doesn;t put 100% effort into it
- Pyschoanalysis
- Definitions
- Behavioural model
- Too much evidence is based on animals
- Accounts for cultural differences
- Too simlistic - reductionist
- Cognitive Model
- What if the irrational thoughts are the rational ones?
- Many people with a mental illness have and irrational thought pattern
- It doeant adress the origin of the irrational thoughts
- Psychodynamic model
- Is it still relevant?
- Some evidence for defence mechanisms - the girl that remembered her father killing her best friend 30 years later
- Lots of therapies have been created form this research
- Biological model
- Its reductionist it breaks problems down too far.
- Relief for the patient knowing their ill
- Behavioural model
- Therpaies
- Can be scientifically proven
- Biological model
- Its reductionist it breaks problems down too far.
- Relief for the patient knowing their ill
- Biological model
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