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Treatment Approaches for Anxiety Disorders

The treatment of anxiety disorders is variable and will be directly linked to thenature and severity of the anxiety being experienced by the person. As mentionedabove, anxiety is one of the most treatable psychiatric disorders. However, it mustalso be remembered that anxiety may coexist in the presence of other psychologicaldisorders, such as depression. All this […]

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Behavioral Approaches to PTSD

Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for PTSD. Early behavioral conceptual models of PTSD were largely based on the two-factor learning theory of psychopathology originally proposed by Mowrer. As applied to PTSD, two-factor conditioning models posit that fear and other aversive emotions are learned through association via mechanisms of classical conditioning. Such fear conditioning is the first factor in […]

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Interventions in anorexia by cognitive behavioural approaches

The second phase of treatment involves interventions aimed at achieving and maintaining longterm behavioural change. Perhaps the most widely used cognitive behavioural approach was developed by Garner and Bemis. This was divided into a number of phases, the fi rst of which was intended to establish a working alliance with the individual. Garner and Bemis […]

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Biological Approaches To Defining Disorder

Early biologically-based accounts of disease claimed that a condition is a disease ifand only if it is statistically infrequent and reduces an organism’s life-expectancy orfertility. Some proponents of such an account have thought that it could work formental disorders as well as physical disorders. In a 1975 paper Robert Kendell usessuch a biologically-based account to […]

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Types of therapeutic approaches

A therapy is a deliberate intervention which aims to treat mental disorder and make it more manageable. A therapy may be an attempt to ‘cure’ or it may be an attempt to teach the individual how to cope with the problem. What follows is an overview of the range of therapies available. Therapies can be […]

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