Zusammenfassung der Ressource
models and treatments
of abnormalities
- Biological/Medical Model
- Assumptions and Applications
- psychological abnormality has a physical cause.
- Genetic, organic, or chemical disorders cause mental disorder symptoms.
- Because the patients are ill,they are not responsible for their abnormal behaviours.
- But may cause loss of rights and learned helplessness
- Treatments
- Drug Treatment
- Electro-Convulsive Therapy (ECT)
- Psychosurgery
- Psychodynamic Model
- Assumptions and Applications
- Abnormality is caused by unresolved unconscious conflicts or repressed
traumatic events from childhood.
- Psychological&physical symptoms are expressions of the unconscious
- Patients are not responsible for their disorders/Their parents may be blamed.
- Treatments
- Classical psychoanalysis
- Free association
- Dream analysis
- Hypnosis
- Psychodynamic Psychotherapy
- Focus on emotions, relationships, dreams and defence mechanisms
- Behavioural Model
- Assumptions and Applications
- Classical Conditioning/Operant Conditioning/Social Learning
- Adaptive responses have been learnt and maladaptive
responses have not been learnt.
- Only target specific behaviour
- high level of envitonment influence
- Cognitive Model
- Assumptions and Applications
- Abnormality is caused by difficulty controlling thought process
- Assumes thoughts control behaviours
- Unrealistic, distorted or irrational understanding and thoughts
about the self/others/environment
- Individuals with mental disorders are blamed
- Cognitive-behavioural treatment
- Systematic Desensitization
- Gradually introduce feared object
- Flooding
- Putting patient in situation with worst phobia
- Aversion Therapy
- Pairing unwanted stimulus with unpleasant stimulus
- Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy
- Therapist continually challenges ant irrational thought and replace them with healthier ones