Treatment Approaches for Mental Disorders: A Presentation

This presentation explores various approaches to treating mental disorders. It begins by introducing the concept of treatment and therapies, highlighting their role in addressing mental health issues. The presentation then delves into specific therapeutic approaches, including the psychodynamic approach, which focuses on addressing unconscious conflicts; the somatic approach, which integrates the body, mind, and emotions in the healing process; and the behavioral approach, which targets and modifies unhealthy behaviors. Furthermore, the presentation addresses the ethical implications of these approaches, using a case study of a patient with depression, alcohol addiction, and post-traumatic stress disorder. The conclusion emphasizes the clinical practices involved in solving mental health problems and the effectiveness of different therapeutic methods, such as those for PTSD, depression, child abuse, and addiction. References to relevant literature are also provided.

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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