This essay aims to demonstrate my understanding of two psychological theories and how these two theories relate to eating disorders. The psychodynamic theory would say that eating disorders are developed through childhood experiences and are used as a defence mechanism. The psychodynamic theory was developed in the 20th century by Sigmund Freud and he stated that the personality is made of 3 parts‚ the ID‚ which is responsible for instincts and pleasure seeking‚ the SUPEREGO which tries to obey
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The Comparison between Psychodynamic and Humanistic Theory There are very distinct differences between Psychodynamic and Humanistic Counselling but both ultimately offer the help and guidance to discover why we act the way we do and why we make certain choices in our lives. Throughout this essay‚ I will endeavour to explain those major differences and you will see that despite these completely different methods of therapy‚ depending on what the problem maybe‚ they can both work very effectively
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Psychodynamic theory was developed by Sigmund Freud. This theory‚ developed by studying and interpreting a sample of clients‚ focuses on looking at emotions. It looks at what the client is feeling and what motivates what they do. Using his research Freud theorized the unconscious mind‚ stating influences on our behaviour may come from parts of our mind that we are unaware of and that memories or thoughts too frightening for a client to deal with may be locked away inside the brain (Freud‚ 2005)
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A reflection on two approaches Both psychodynamic and Focusing-oriented therapies regard trauma as a painful and challenging experience. They understand trauma as something that can alter a person’s sense of self. They both acknowledge the survivor’s attempts to avoid the pain. Also‚ both approaches note that there is an adaptive aspect to the survivor’s responses (as they attempt to avoid the pain) (see Mackay‚ 2002; Vantarakis‚ 2014). These approaches aim to help the clients to integrate their
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Katrin Mössler The Pros and Cons of International Staffing April 2003 The ethnocentric staffing policy refers to the strategy of a multinational company to employ managers for key positions from the parent headquarters instead of employing local staff ("Global Human Resource Management"). Many organizations have traditionally relied on parent country nationals (PCNs) for staffing top management positions abroad for a number of reasons ("Global Human Resource Management"): 1. The expatriate’s
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parent country: Parent Country Nationals(PNC) Ethnocentric Approach Host Country Nationals(HCN) Polycentric Approach Third Country Nationals(TCN) Re-Geocentric & Geocentric The Ethnocentric Staffing Policy: Few foreign subsidiaries have an autonomy and strategic decisions are made at the headquarters. Key positions in domestic and foreign operations are held by headquarters personnel. Subsidiaries are managed by staff from the home country. The ethnocentric staffing policy refers to the strategy of
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Ethnocentric staffing approach Word number:973 Executive summary In today’s global world Human Resource (HR) practices and polices have become very significant for further development of multinationals organizations. In order for multinationals companies to be competitive‚ it is necessary to have adequate international staffing approach. Management of employees in foreign subsidiary is a complex job. Nevertheless‚ Human Resource managers need to manage people across
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approaches. An approach is a perspective that involves assumptions about human behaviour‚ the way they function‚ which aspects of them are worthy of study and what research methods are appropriate for undertaking this study. There may be several different theories within an approach‚ but they all share these common assumptions. You may be wonder why there are so many different psychology perspectives and whether one approach is correct and others wrong. Most psychologists would agree that no one
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References Dean‚ R. (2002). TEACHING CONTEMPORARY PSYCHODYNAMIC THEORY FOR CONTEMPORARY SOCIAL WORK PRACTICE. Smith College Studies in Social Work‚ 73(1)‚ 11-27. Retrieved from SocINDEX with Full Text database. Smith Studies in Social Work‚ 73{\)‚ 2002 TEACHING CONTEMPORARY PSYCHODYNAMIC THEORY FOR CONTEMPORARY SOCIAL WORK PRACTICE Ruth Grossman Dean‚ PhD Abstract Psychodynamic theories‚ once an essential part of social work education but recently neglected‚ have been reinvigorated
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Human Behaviour: The Psychodynamic and Cognitive Theories. This essay will purport to discuss the case study of Suzy. Suzy presents with symptoms of two mood disorders‚ namely depression and anxiety. The two theoretical perspectives that will be used are Psychodynamic theory and Cognitive theory. Suzy’s depression and anxiety present with certain symptoms. These symptoms‚ as well as the behaviour that results‚ will be explained and analysed using firstly the psychodynamic theory which will then be
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