Essays on Case Formulation

General Summary of the Application of Positive Psychology in the field of Psychology

Psychology is a vast field. One of the main reasons why psychology, the study of human behavior and of the human mind, has been developed both as an academic discipline and a branch of applied science was because of the lack of society’s understanding of how mental illnesses and disorders develop and can be treated, or so at least in the past. Psychology has often thrived thanks to the collective and scientific approach that it uses to understand individuals and or groups of individuals, establishing theories that could help better understand the underlying mental health and or behavioral problems in a ...

Mental and psychiatric illnesses have are on a rise especially with the dynamism in social, economic and even political changes. These factors have made people liable to mental conditions. This paper will review the diagnosis using the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition, Text Revision (DSM-IV-TR) classification and justify the diagnosis. The paper will also outline a case formulation.

PART 1-DIAGNOSIS BASED ON DSM-IV-TR

Robert Jones clearly shows a clinical mental disorder and other clinical conditions that require further medical attention. On the basis of the multiaxial assessment of the mental illness, Robert is an alcoholic who clearly depends on alcohol. Alcohol as a drug ...

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is an approach of psychotherapeutic. It basically aims at solving problems that concern dysfunctional emotions, cognitions and behaviors via systematic procedure and goal oriented in the present. It is a proven technique of psychotherapy and thus proposes that it is not the events themselves that leads to anxiety and responses of maladaptive but as well individual’s interpretations and expectations of certain events. It proposes that maladaptive behaviors can only be changed by directly dealing with an individual’s beliefs and thoughts. Basically, CBT is a generic term which constitutes varied approaches, more so Cognitive Therapy (CT) ...