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Running Head: MENTAL HEALTH THEORIESMental Health Theories
Erika Watson
Rasmussen College
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Author Note
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This research is being submitted on July 10, 2016 for Lisa Hansen's NU249/NUR2488
Mental Health course.
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MENTAL HEALTH THEORIES
This paper outlines two different theories on how to treat mental health patients. One
theory is based on cognitive and the other is based on behavioral. Nurses need to have an
understanding of these theories so they can help patients identify negative thought patterns. In
doing this a nurse can promote healthy functioning and improve neurochemistry. Cognitive
theory teaches a person that their feelings and actions and actions are based on distorted thinking.
This allows the person to replace the negative thinking with positive thinking. I also chose two
theories that are both cognitive, to show the different ways we can go about applying this theory.
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Behavior theory addresses modifying behaviors with rewards and punishment, to correct the
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behavior.
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Aaron T. Beck had a theory in 1963, that depressed people generally had standard
patterns of negative and self-critical thinking. Cognitive evaluation of events leads to emotional
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responses—it is not the stimulus itself that causes the response, but instead one's evaluation of
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the stimulus. (Varcarolis, 2013)
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Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is commonly used and is based on both cognitive
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and behavioral theory. It seeks to modify negative thoughts that lead to dysfunctional emotions
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and actions. (Varcarolis, 2013) Several concepts underlie this therapy. One is that we all
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have schemata, or unique assumptions about ourselves, others, and the world around us. For
example, if someone has, a schema that no one can be trusted but their self; this person will
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question everyone else's motives and expect deception and eventual pain from relationships with
others.
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