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How to treatment of phobias
Behavioural treatments The premise underpinning behavioural treatments of phobias involve exposure to the feared stimulus either directly (flooding) or in a series of hierarchical stages (systematic desensitization). These approaches may be augmented by teaching people skills such as relaxation or cognitive strategies to counter negative expectations and fear of catastrophic outcomes. However, the effects of […]
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How to treatment of schizophrenia?
How to treatment of schizophrenia?There are a lots of methods of treatment of schizophrenia. There are many patients a doctor can be selected under the guidance and advice more appropriate treatment options to modulating their condition. Antipsychotic medication Most people diagnosed with schizophrenia receive some form of medication, although dosages may be reduced or even […]
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How to treatment of conversion disorder
Studies of interventions in conversion disorder are largely uncontrolled studies of cohorts of people with the disorder or case studies. At the time of writing, few randomized controlled trials – the gold standard of intervention research – had been conducted. This makes it difficult to ascribe any successes found in the published research to the […]
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How to treatment of body dysmorphic disorder
Treatment of body dysmorphic disorder include: Psychological treatment The most common psychological treatment for body dysmorphic disorder involves CBT. Exposure to avoided situations can include exposure to the sight of the individual’s own body or showing their perceived defect in social situations. Often, exposure programmes follow hierarchies of increasingly diffi cult to cope with body […]
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How to treatment of hypochondriasis
Psychological treatment Psychological treatment for hypochondriasis can be difficult, particularly where individuals hold a strong belief in their having a physical disease. One way this has been addressed is through the use of a variety of CBT interventions, including: Behavioural hypothesis testing: this can involve working with a client to investigate the reality of their […]
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The concept of abnormality-Who needs treatment?
Before we can begin to describe and evaluate the different types of treatment that are available for mental disorder, it is essential to consider first what exactly we mean by ‘mental disorder’ or ‘abnormality’. Despite the fact that most cultures have acknowledged the existence of mental problems in some form, there are considerable discrepancies between […]
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Why have physical treatments tended to predominate?
From a user’s perspective, the fact that psychiatric treatments are biased more towards drugs and ECT is indeed a problem. Not only do patients (understandably) expect their subjective sense of well-being to improve as a result of psychiatric treatment, they have higher expectations of the helpfulness of psychological and combined treatments than physical interventions alone. […]
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A brief social history of psychiatric treatment
Sedgwick notes that two broad responses to emotional problems can be traced to antiquity. On the one hand, attempts have been made to tamper with the bodies of people with emotional afflictions, for example douching them in water or drilling holes in their skulls to allow evil spirits to escape. On the other hand, in […]
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Treatment Outcome: Strategies for Addressing the Individual’s Return to Work
Treatment Outcome: Strategies for Addressing the Individual’s Return to Work The key issues in addressing the patients return to work are: • For physicians to realize that symptoms not clearly explainable by objectivepathology and that unexplained delayed recovery may be due to psychosocialissues • For physicians to screen such patients with questionnaires to further documentthat […]
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Referral and Coordination of Treatment Considerations
Referral and Coordination of Treatment Considerations:Strengths and Weaknesses in Current Processes Again, the main weakness in the current workers’ compensation system is thatphysicians are economically incentivized not to find the psychosocial issues, andthat once discovered, many workers’ compensation insurers seem to deny the treatmentauthorization for these issues. Some jurisdictions do not recognize mental healthissues accompanying […]
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