Perspectives on Psychological Disorders and Treatment

PERSPECTIVES
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PERSPECTIVES
Introduction
A perspective is a view that involves certain beliefs in regards to human behavior. Many
psychologists believe that no one aspect is correct though, in the past, the behaviorists would
have said that their perspective was the only scientific one. Psychological perspectives like
behavioral perspective views individuals and animals are controlled by their environment. This
behavior assumes that all maladaptive behavior is acquired primarily through the context of the
individual (Curtis, 2016). Therefore, psychiatrists practicing the views of this perspective might
prioritize the behavioral change over recognizing the cause of the dysfunctional action. The
critical answer to psychological diseases under this perspective is aversion therapy. This is where
the stimulus that arouses the dysfunctional action is teamed with the second stimulus with
objectives to cause a new response to the first stimulus based on the second stimulus. This
perspective allows people to and their differences in culture to be considered (Insel 2016,
pp.153-154). It also overcomes the ethical challenges brought about by the medical perspective
of seeing a person as abnormal. Given that the action is not presenting issues to the person or
other individuals, then there is no need to say that the action is a mental disorder.
Furthermore, there is also a cognitive perspective which differs from a biomedical perspective.
This perspective explains that cognitive distortions in the thinking procedures and cognitive
deficiencies especially faulty thinking and planning (Ialongo et al.2015, pp.968-1018). This
perspective explains these variable as the causes of many psychological disorders. The treatment
of mental disease is entirely different from the behavioral perspectives whereby the patient is
taught to think differently rather than behaving in a different ways. It is believed that the patient's
feelings and emotions towards something are impacted to change. Also, the psychodynamic
perspective is based on the principles that psychological sickness come about from emotions that
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are repressed and thoughts from past experiences, and as a result of this repression, alternative
behavior replaces what is being suppressed. When the patient admits that which is repressed,
then it is believed that the victim is a cure (Strauss, 2017). The critical treatment for this sickness
n this perspective is free association where he or she can speak freely as the psychiatrist takes
notes and tries to interpret where there is a problem. This perspective can be useful particularly
where the victim feels at ease to communicate freely and about issues that are relevant to a cure.
The biomedical perspectives posit that mental diseases are brain sicknesses and emphasize
pharmacological medication in order to target presumed deformities that are biologically in
nature. The core perceptions of this perspective encompass mental sicknesses are caused by
anatomical deformities that are located in the brain principally; lack of significant difference
between mental diseases and physical sicknesses and medication biologically is encouraged
(Corrigan, Druss and Perlick 2014. pp.37-70). This perspective has been considered the
dominant aspect of molecular biology as its discipline. This perspective not only needs that the
illness is dealt with as a vital force of social behavior independently. Furthermore, it requests that
behavioral arbitrations be discussed by disordered somatic processes. This perspective reduces
the importance of psychosocial benefactions to mental deformities and also assumes the
eliminative reductionist position ( Kaviani, Ahmadi and Gholampour 2014, pp. 586-591 ). The
level of analysis biologically is adequately phenomenal to the psychological and psychology
downgraded to the status of a placeholder science which will be taken by neuroscience and
molecular biology. Part of this perspective has been researched into critical neurotransmitter,
serotonin that seems to explain that main psychological diseases like anorexia nervosa and
bipolar disorder are caused by the decrease in the level of serotonin.
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