Comparisons Of Approaches

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Humanistic Approach

  • Development: self-growth
  • Nature vs. Nurture: nurture via self-concept
  • Reductionism vs. Holism: holistic
  • Determinism vs. Free Will: soft free-will
  • Treatment: Client-Centered Therapy (counselling)
  • Nomothetic vs. Idiographic: idiographic
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Psychodynamic Approach

  • Development: psychosexual stages
  • Nature vs. Nurture: fundamentally nature with nurture elements (e.g parents)
  • Reductionism vs. Holism: reduces into sexual stages
  • Determinism vs. Free Will: hard psychic determinism
  • Treatment: psychoanalysis for anxiety and trauma
  • Nomothetic vs. Idiographic: nomothetic (psychosexual stages)
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Biological

  • Development: maturation
  • Nature vs. Nurture: nature with nurture influence
  • Reductionism vs. Holism: reductionism into genetics/neurons
  • Determinism vs. Free Will: hard determinism of environment
  • Treatment: drug therapy for chemical imbalance
  • Nomothetic vs. Idiographic: nomothetic
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Cognitive

  • Development: development of schema
  • Nature vs. Nurture: nature via schema, nurture via experience
  • Reductionism vs. Holism: machine reductionism
  • Determinism vs. Free Will: soft determinism of chosen our own thoughts/behaviours
  • Treatment: CBT for depression
  • Nomothetic vs. Idiographic: slightly idiographic
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Social Learning Theory

  • Development: no coherent stages
  • Nature vs. Nurture: nurture via association
  • Reductionism vs. Holism: reduces behaviour into stimulus-response units
  • Determinism vs. Free Will: reciprocal determinism (soft)
  • Treatment: none
  • Nomothetic vs. Idiographic: nomothetic because of general laws
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Behaviourism

  • Development: no coherent stages
  • Nature vs. Nurture: nurture via association
  • Reductionism vs. Holism: reduces behaviour into stimulus-response units
  • Determinism vs. Free Will: hard determinism of environment
  • Treatment: systematic desensitisation
  • Nomothetic vs. Idiographic: nomothetic because of the general laws
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