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Chapter 16
Treatment of Abnormal Behaviour




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Treatment: A Psychological Approach

1. Can a combined approach exist?
2. The elements of the treatment process
3. Treatments: how many are there?
4. The role of a mental health professional
5. The difference between clinical psychologists and psychiatrists
6. Making a diagnosis
→ Empirically supported treatment options are developed to support psychological intervention
→ Psychologists can adapt approach to the patient
→ Treatment protocol = Specific approach to treating and managing a specific disorder, that has been
developed, implemented, and evaluated over a period of time.
○ Approach = authenticated with reference to an appropriate patient population
- Allows clinician to identify, modify, and implement empirically supported treatment regimens
- Clinician can provide a service within parameters of good, ethical practice




1. Can a Combined Approach Exist?
→ George Engel’s conceptual introduction of the BIOPSYCHOSOCIAL MODEL = replaced purely medical
model of viewing health
○ Promotes multifaceted integration of biological, psychological, and social influences on mental
health


clinicians can explore mental
illness through integration of
these components.




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, © Ane Venter
○ Attraction of model to the medical domain = may be attributed to inclusion of biological
composition of mental illness.
- May include:
 General medical conditions
 Genetic predispositions
 Neurological, biological, and cognitive impairments
○ Model considers psychological predisposing risk factors that may significantly impact the mental
state of an individual.
- May include:
 Emotional turmoil
 Self-esteem
 Coping skills
 External locus of control
 Traumatic events
○ Social influences – also known as psychosocial influences
- May include:
 Family
 Interpersonal relationships
 Poverty
 Education and/or culture
- Noteworthy in the development and sustainability of mental illness
→ Model allows clinician to explore causality of health within parameters of an integrative theoretical
understanding.
→ Model facilitates an integrative approach to aetiology of mental illness + highlighting its complexity




2. The Elements of the Treatment Process
→ Case that inspired Freud = patient treated by his colleague Joseph Breuer
○ 1880
○ Young woman named Anna O (Bertha Pappenheim)
○ Exhibited symptoms such as headaches, coughing, and a lack of feeling and movement in her right
arm.
○ Symptoms cleared up when encouraged to talk about traumatic experiences from her past
- Wondered if talking cured bottled up symptoms

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