psychopathology case studies

jahodas ideal mental health

- self actualisation

- good self esteem

- realistic view of the world

- independent of other people

jahoda eval

- culture bound to places interested in self actualisation and independence

- it presents a very high standard and may make people discouraged

- a checklist we can measure ourselves against

watson and rayner (1920)

- little albert

- made a loud noise whenever he touched a white rat until he associated the rat with the scary noise

watson and rayner eval

- supports theory of classical conditioning

- doesn't explain generic phobias like fire

becks negative triad

negative view of world, self and future

beck eval

- cognitive vulnerability assessments have been used in cbt assessments

- doesn't explain everything depressed people can experience like hallucinatiins

ellis abc model

- external activating event, irrational beliefs, consequences of these beliefs

ellis eval

- only explains reactive depression and not endogenous depression which is not traceable

- a bit victim blamey

- part of rational emotive behaviour therapy which tries to reverse irrational beliefs

becks cbt and ellis rebt

cbt - identifying and challenging automatic negative thoughts related to the triad

treats client as the scientist

rebt - dispute irrational thoughts

empirical arguing to see if there is actual evidence for the thoughts

cbt and rebt eval

- talking therapy is self motivating so isn't good for severe case patients

- in a study 42% relapsed after six months of ending treatment

- 81% of people on just drugs and 86% of people on drugs and cbt saw significant improvement

nestadt (2010)

- 68% of monozygotic twins shared OCD vs 31% dizygotic twins