Question

Select and research one (1) of the following forms of psychotherapy Cognitive or Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Dialectical Behavior Therapy Behavior Therapy Psychodynamic therapy Family therapy (structural or multi-dimensional) Answer the Following Questions What is the research evidence that this method is effective? With what types of mental disorders and with what age groups has this approach shown some success? How does this method compare to just providing psychiatric medications? Are there benefits for using combinations of treatment, such as medications,plus psychotherapy, plus mindful meditation, etc?

Answer 1

Behaviourism is defined as an objective and scientific methods based psychological method or approach.

It only related to observable behaviour based on stimulus-response.

It states that all learning of all behaviours occurs due to environmental experiences.

In 1913, John Watson state that learning of all behaviours is due to environmental interaction.

New experiences are learned through classical conditioning. Because infants are born with the ‘tabula rasa’ mental state.

CEBT or Cognitive emotional behavioural therapy is developed for the treatment of eating disorder or binge disorder but it is also very effective on many disorders like OCD(obsessive-compulsive disorder, anxiety, depression, PTSD and other mood-related problems.

DSM’s delineation of anorexia, bulimia, and binge-eating disorder give adequate coverage to the kinds of eating disorders to which men might be prone.

Typical eating disorders in men are:

anorexia, bulimia, and binge-eating disorder

diagnostic criteria for an eating disorder(s) that would encompass the sorts of eating problems to which men are prone:

• Recurrent episodes of binge eating.

• Overeating.

• Continuous eating until reached to uncomfortable conditions

• Overeating without any hunger sensation.

• eating alone due to embarrassment.

• feeling depressed and guilty after overeating.