CBH368: Evaluating Three Approaches to Treating Mental Disorders

This project evaluates three distinct approaches to treating mental disorders: psychodynamic, somatic (biological), and behavioral. The psychodynamic approach focuses on underlying psychological factors and employs therapies like psychoanalysis, while the somatic approach uses biomedical interventions such as chemotherapy and electroconvulsive therapy. The behavioral approach utilizes scientific models like aversion therapy to address phobias and anxieties. Each approach has its advantages and disadvantages; the psychodynamic approach lacks scientific validity, the somatic approach can have adverse side effects, and the behavioral approach may be overly simplistic. The project also discusses the ethical implications of each approach, emphasizing the importance of therapist-patient relationships and responsible treatment administration. The project concludes that all three approaches can effectively assist patients in overcoming mental health challenges when applied thoughtfully and ethically. Desklib provides access to similar projects and study resources for students.

Treatment and
Therapies

Introduction
This presentation will cover three approaches which
efficiently treat mental disorder of an individual, with their
ethical implications.

1.1 Evaluation of three approaches
to treat mental disorder
The three approaches to treat mental disorder are:
• Psychodynamic Approach
• Somatic (biological) Approach
• Behavioural Approach

Psychodynamic Approach
• Psychodynamic approach consider and explain the behaviour
of individual and focuses on the factors that influence the
behaviour of certain person.
• This approach involves therapies including psychoanalysis,
free association and dream analysis.
• These therapies used to treat mental illness including
depression, anxiety and Alzheimer.

Advantages
• The therapy captures the root cause and targets to eliminate in
effective and efficient way.
• Psychoanalysis therapy used to overcome and treat the
psychological problem faced by an individual.

Disadvantages
• There is lack of scientific validity as the model is mere
subjective and does not provide precise results.
• It does not provide evidence regarding biological components.
The approach is based on theories and does not provide
precise evidence relating with person addiction behaviour.

Somatic (biological) Approach
• The somatic or biological approach aims to examine and
investigate all behaviour and experiences in terms of physical
bodily process.
• It treats the disorder related with stress and other
psychological problems with the use of various biomedical
therapies such as chemotherapy, electroconvulsive therapy and
psychosurgery.

Advantages
• The strength of somatic or biological approach is it covers
variety of mental disorder and treat all the mental illness
efficiently and effectively.
• Where other theories and therapies fails, drug therapy succeed
to treat the person suffering from schizophrenia and other
psychological factors.

Disadvantages
• Side effects of drugs that reproduce some other issues in the
health of patient is the biggest disadvantage of this treatment.
• The biological model focuses on practical treatment, rather
than using theories or other psychoanalysis theories. It leads to
other consequences faced by any person or individual.

Behavioural Approach
• The behavioural approach and therapies are used to treat
various phobias and anxiety which troubles the patient.
• The goal and motive of behavioural approach is to treat mental
disorder of any person by using scientific models.
• Aversion therapy and Token economies that assist the patient
to overcome the phobias and fear he is suffering from.

Advantages
• The major strength of the behavioural approach is that some
disorders especially phobias seem to be a result of ‘faulty
learning’.
• The behavioural approach is more efficient than the biological
approach at explaining some disorders such as Post-Traumatic
Stress Disorder, which is an anxiety disorder that occurs in
response to an extreme psychological or physical experience.

Disadvantages
• The behavioural approach to treat any patient is reductionist as
it is treated with simple rewards and punishments.
• There are no biological explanation for the treatment, as it is
merely based on the behaviours and experience faced by any
individual.