I‘ve checked the job postings sites as usual, and as usual more employers are looking for new blood. Even there are about a thousand of employers, most of the jobs are not the ones I can handle. No good news yet . . .…
David Karp’s “In Sickness and In Health” discusses the complexities of mental illness and the notable impact – whether positive or negative – that a mental illness can have not only to the individual themselves, but also their significant others. To better illustrate this secondary influence, the reading follows the personal account of a woman named Gail. Gail is a wife and caregiver to her husband Jeff who has been experiencing manic episodes, long periods of depression, and suicidal thoughts for much of their marriage. Although I had a prior understanding of mood disorders including their theorized causes, symptomatology, and potential avenues for treatment, this understanding was more theoretical and unapplied.…
Rain Man is a movie of psychological change; from beginning to end the persona of a self-centered, egotistical, businessman changes to that of a caring man capable of showing love. Charlie Babbit worked as a car dealership owner, in which he put most of his time and energy into. Charlie can be seen as a pretty lonely person, despite having a girlfriend and living an upper-middle class American lifestyle. Charlie 's mother died since he was a child, and his relationship with his father ended on a negative note leaving Charlie feeling even more isolated after his passing. Charlie 's past and present behavior in the movie can be seen as influenced by biosocial development.…
Eric, a 24-year-old Caucasian male, living in an apartment with his mother and brother who has recently self-diagnosed himself and seeking therapy. The correlation between Eric’s symptoms and family relationships, who are “constantly attacking him...” and “cannot do anything right in their eyes” an explanation for persistent anxiety, phobia, and hallucinations. Client states that these symptoms have been ongoing for one month, which has led to interrupting clients work place and social interactions.…
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is represented and grounded in the behavioral and cognitive theories of human beings (Benjamin et. al, 2011). Around the 1960’s, psychodynamic perspective effectiveness was questioned, and it appeared to be lacking (Benjamin et. al, 2011).…
The value of developing an affective psychotherapy for depressed individuals determines on the overall management of those that chooses not to take prescribed medication for their symptoms. Although, medication when used properly may help decreased symptoms in some clients, others develop side effects while using, making them discontinue the intake. In many cases, psychotherapy becomes the sole intervention in the treatment process for these clients (Beck, Rush, Shaw & Emery, 1979). Goldfried (2013) illustrates the importance of CBT while in a therapeutic session with a client. The therapist goal in CBT is to help patients learn to be their own therapist by reexamining their schematic implicational meaning structures as they occur.…
In Laura A. King’s book “The Science of Psychology: An Appreciative View (4th edition)” there are seven contemporary approaches to psychology, that examine questions regarding human behavior, as well as these seven approaches help to explain how some people may become depressed as well. These perspectives show different views and ideas of the same behaviors, and they all contain valuable information that the other approaches might…
Beck's theory is that thinking preceded and caused depression. First, he proposed people hold dysfunctional beliefs that predispose them to depression. These are rigid, extreme, and unhelpful beliefs about the world. They create automatic, negative thoughts that center around the cognitive triad. The cognitive triad is the self, the world, and the future.…
These principles are part of the foundation that cognitive behavioral therapy is built on and can help with client treatment in disorders like anxiety, fear, anger, depression, obsessive compulsive disorder, conduct disorders, and others (Beck, 2011). The first principle states how thoughts cause us to feel or behave in certain ways, not external things like people, situations, and events. The idea of this principle is that healthier thinking can lead to feeling better and reacting in more appropriate ways. Understanding this principle is explained through the cognitive triad, how negative views about the world relate to negative views about the future and negative views about the self. These automatic negative thoughts are internal processes that occur in every individual with maladaptive behaviors (Dienes et al., 2011; Beck, 2011).…
Anti-depressants are some of the most used medications used by mankind today, surpassed only by ADHD medication. However, despite the overwhelming use most users don’t know the side effects of medication. It is important for anyone suffering from depression to consider both the good and the bad effects that anti-depressants will give you. And along with people not knowing the effects, there are many who argue against using said drugs, even going as far as to question the validity of the doctors who prescribe them.…
The article Psychological Treatment, by David Barlow, discusses the needs to create a more honed definition for psychological treatments such that it is separated from the broader definition that is psychotherapy. Barlow, believed that using treatments that are specified to disorders, is just as effective as providing patients with prescribed medication. The efficacy of treatments that had been proven time after time, he believes should be grounds to include them in the health care system. Barlow, believed that using medication alone does not provide any real guarantee of remission or relief of symptoms even if pharmalogical companies market their drugs as the “be-all and end-all” of solutions. For example, hormone replacement therapy was the…
Depression is often thought to be triggered by negative life events such as the death of a loved one or extreme trauma (Hoeksema & Morrow, 1993). But something as simple as thinking, if left its own devices, can trigger multiple psychopathologies such as anxiety and depression (Hoeksema & Morrow, 1991). This type of thinking is called rumination, or repetitively pondering something, typically a negative theme such as worthlessness. Many of us often engage in such behavior from time to time, often after an embarrassing situation, or disappointing outcome.…
The theory addresses how depression can be cured without medication and/or without a psychiatrist. This theory matters because depression can be a very serious disorder if not treated the right way. Untreated depression may result in weight or loss, feelings of hopelessness and helplessness, irritability, and possibly, suicide. Depression is can be caused by many things such as lack of sleep, family issues, relationship issues, family genetics or even substance abuse can cause depression. While some depression is more serious than others, when someone is feeling depressed they should go find a funny movie to watch because there is a method called “Laughter Yoga” which is gaining ground as a credible treatment for depression and anxiety, Laughing…
Banduras suggested that the depressed person’s concept of ones-self is different to that of a non-depressed person. A depressed person will have the tendency to blame themselves for any negative events that occur in their lives but any positives will be attributed to external forces, he also believed that a depressed person did not believe that they were capable of influencing their own personal situation. As a result, depressed people have flawed judgmental process and tended to set any goals too high clearly being unable to meet them. This leads to the whole process being repeated again and again ultimately leading to depression (Nemade, et al.,…
The majority of people suffering from anxiety and depression go a considerable amount of their lives undiagnosed. What triggers them to seek treatment is often not that they are having mental health problems, but physical health problems that have been brought on by their disorders. If the illness goes undiagnosed for too long it will generate an assortment of complications that can lead to the sufferer being buried under a myriad of medications. This spiraling effect can make the diagnoses feel out of control. Though the predominance of doctors will provide treatments to deal with the symptoms of anxiety and depression after the fact, the best way to go about correcting these problems is to stop them at the start.…