Psychotropic or antipsychotic medications are drugs used to help stable a person’s mood who may suffer from a variety of different mental illnesses. Psychotropic and antipsychotic medications serve different purposes‚ and many are used in conjunction with one another to help reach therapeutic goals. Antidepressants such as‚ Lexapro or Zoloft‚ fall under the psychotropic medication pharmacological class. Medications known as Clozaril‚ Risperdal and Haldol‚ are drugs that fall under the class known
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Psychodynamic theory‚ in regards to working with a diverse population‚ has a various amount of strengths. The first being that analytic theory can be extremely effective when altered and adapted to the standards of the culture in which the counselor practices. Counselors can help their clients delve into the environmental situations‚ such as a kind of abuse‚ that have caused major turning points in the client’s life. This divulging of‚ or exposure to‚ these environmental situations allows the client
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Psychodynamic Theories Many psychologists have proposed theories that try to explain the origins of personality. One highly influential set of theories stems from the work of Austrian neurologist Sigmund Freud‚ who first proposed the theory of psychoanalysis. Collectively‚ these theories are known as psychodynamic theories. Although many different psychodynamic theories exist‚ they all emphasize unconscious motives and desires‚ as well as the importance of childhood experiences in shaping personality
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learn ethical and moral rules from par- cerning the self and the world around ents‚ role models‚ etc.‚ the superego develops them makes up their personality. which tells people what is right from wrong. Strengths and Weaknesses The psychodynamic approach emphasizes the importance of both nature and nurture. It also focuses on how childhood experiences have an effect on the developing personality. A weakness to be considered is the implica- Personality and Behavior Behavior and personality
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Trauma is the experience that begins with an exposure to a non-normative or extremely distressing event or chain of events that potentially disrupts the self. McCann‚ & Pearlman‚ (1990) This essay will explore the intra-psychic psychodynamic approach and the socio-ecological theory of Bronfenbrenner’s ecological systems theory of development. It will examine how individuals recover from trauma when a loved one becomes chronically ill or deceases. Pierre Janet‚ 1889‚ suggested that intense emotional
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Running head: Humanistic‚ Psychodynamic and Structuralism James Price AIU PSY206 06 February‚ 2009 Humanistic‚ Psychodynamic and Structuralism I am going to discuss Humanistic theory‚ Psychodynamic theory and Structuralism. I will attempt to compare and contrast these three theories. The humanistic theory was headed by two psychologists‚ Abraham Maslow and Carl Rogers (Humanistic Theory‚ 2002). Their goal was to understand the personality and to improve the overall happiness of their patients
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Sigmund Freud developed Psychodynamic theory which gave a detailed description of the levels of awareness (conscious‚ preconscious and unconscious) and explained how the thoughts and feelings of an individual can affect his or her actions. Today‚ this theory is successfully used in modern psychology. Many psychotherapists use psychodynamic psychotherapy which helps the patients to understand their feelings. Psychodynamic psychology treats depression‚ a widespread illness in our modern society which
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Article: Psychodynamic Psychotherapy for Cancer Patients First‚ the author recommends that the psychotherapist who treats cancer patients be familiar with the following: 1) the natural course and treatment of the illness‚ 2) a flexible approach in accord with the medical status of the patient‚ 3) a common sense approach to defenses‚ 4) a concern with quality-of-life issues‚ and 5) counter- transference issues as they relate to the treatment of very sick patients (Pospone‚ 1998). The model of psychodynamic
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Introduction. This Presentation will look at the psychodynamic approach to counselling‚ focusing on how problems arise and continue. Then how therapy seeks to resolve these problems. We will look at conflict between ID and superego and unresolved childhood problems. Then we will look at defence mechanisms. From there we look at how therapy brings the unconscious into the conscious to resolve conflicts. Slide 2. In psychodynamic theory‚ there is the structure of the personality‚ which consist of three
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Psychodynamic Therapy and the Experimental Model Making psychodynamic therapy (PDT) fit the experimental model does not remove it from the evocative therapy category. This is because the fundamental roles involved with evocative therapies are still present in experimental PDT. There are‚ of course‚ a number of changes made to fit the experimental model‚ but PDT continues the patient-based evocative methods involved in a long-term evocative therapy. In general‚ psychotherapies tend to follow a set
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