Treatment and Therapies

Treatment and Therapies

Cover Content
 Introduction
 Approaches for treating mental disorders
 Psychodynamic approach
 Somatic approach
 Behavioural approach
 Ethical implications raised by selected approaches
 Conclusion
 References

Introduction
 Treatment & therapies refers to medical procedures or activities which
are conducted to provide care services to sick people in order to make
them healthy.
 It involves different treatment processes and therapies according to
specific physical or mental health issues.

Approaches for treating mental disorders
 Mental disorders can be treated with the help of specific therapies,
procedures and medications which are suitable for solving particular
psychological problems of an individual.

Psychodynamic approach
 This is a kind of a form of talk therapy which is helpful to reduce or
make patient relived from problem of mental or emotional stress.
 It consist the concept that present determine roots of psychological pain
is associated by an unconscious conflicts took place in the past.

Somatic approach
 The somatic psychotherapy can be considered as holistic approach
which is responsible for incorporating body, spirit, mind, and emotions
of an individual in healing process.
 Meanwhile, this therapy follow a concept that attitudes, feelings,
thoughts and beliefs effects physical functioning whereas diet, exercise
& posture type physical elements may have positive or negative impact
on emotional and mental state.

Behavioural approach
 This approach consist an umbrella of number of therapies which
facilitate treatment of mental disorders.
 It involves the criteria to determine and support change potentially self
destructive or unhealthy behaviours.
 Moreover, behavioural approach is supportive to sort out mental
problems like panic disorder, depression, anxiety and anger issues.

Ethical implications raised by selected
approaches
 A case of patient named Mr. Brown having age of 70 years who has a
problem of depression and addicted to alcohol. He also face issue of
post traumatic stress disorders because of his wife's death a few years
ago.

Conclusion
 The above PPT has been concluded that treatment & therapies consist
clinical practices for solving mental health problems.
 It includes several approaches like psychodynamic, somatic and
behavioural which are helpful to sort out mental health issues including,
post traumatic stress disorders, depression, child abuse, addictions and
many more.

References
 Dobson, K. S. and Dozois, D. J. Eds., 2019. Handbook of cognitive-
behavioral therapies. Guilford Publications.
 Jain, N. and O'Brien, S., 2016. Targeted therapies for CLL: Practical
issues with the changing treatment paradigm. Blood reviews. 30(3).
pp.233-244.

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