This essay will first summarise newspaper articles one titled ‘hundreds of mental health experts issue rallying call against austerity’ by James Meikle and Dennis Campbell (the guardian) and article two ‘is depression caused by inflammation in the brain? Findings could reveal why suffers experience physical symptoms’ by Richard Gray (the daily mail). This essay will then go on to discuss these two articles contrasting nature and how this is reflected within the mental health community. This essay will use concepts and theories such as formulation and diagnosis, biopsychosocial perspective and display a basic knowledge of psychopharmacology to illustrate its arguments.
Summary of newspaper article one
Four hundred counsellors and psychotherapists …show more content…
The biopsychosocial perspective of a disorder should always be kept at the forefront of any clinicians mind and a formulation along with a diagnosis would make the clinician better able to this. As the clinician would be able to conceptualize the psychological and social perimeters of a disorder while at same time through diagnosing rule out any biological and medical causes for mental ills (ref book) remembering domino effect one perimeter can have on the other and effective treatment of one problem can help the other.
Neuroinflammation and its …show more content…
He hypothesizes that fashions in diagnosis often influence public and medical opinion blaming unethical practices of pharmacology companies such as misleading drug study data, marketing mythology and new drug treatments created especially for financial gain due to loss of patents for these fashions (ref audio) and therefore the creation of an over medicated population. This opinion shows another ideological argument within the mental health community of more drugs verses restraint medication use with financial gain and unethical practices purportedly playing a role in the treatment of depression.
This essay concludes that it has summarised article one and two and discussed there implications and relevance to concepts and theories such as formulation and the biopsychosocial perspective and has also displayed the political and ideological dimensions within mental health community arguing both for and against their understanding and principles within psychology and their relation to article on and article
Summary of newspaper article one
Four hundred counsellors and psychotherapists …show more content…
The biopsychosocial perspective of a disorder should always be kept at the forefront of any clinicians mind and a formulation along with a diagnosis would make the clinician better able to this. As the clinician would be able to conceptualize the psychological and social perimeters of a disorder while at same time through diagnosing rule out any biological and medical causes for mental ills (ref book) remembering domino effect one perimeter can have on the other and effective treatment of one problem can help the other.
Neuroinflammation and its …show more content…
He hypothesizes that fashions in diagnosis often influence public and medical opinion blaming unethical practices of pharmacology companies such as misleading drug study data, marketing mythology and new drug treatments created especially for financial gain due to loss of patents for these fashions (ref audio) and therefore the creation of an over medicated population. This opinion shows another ideological argument within the mental health community of more drugs verses restraint medication use with financial gain and unethical practices purportedly playing a role in the treatment of depression.
This essay concludes that it has summarised article one and two and discussed there implications and relevance to concepts and theories such as formulation and the biopsychosocial perspective and has also displayed the political and ideological dimensions within mental health community arguing both for and against their understanding and principles within psychology and their relation to article on and article