PSYB32H3 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Action Potential, Meninges, Limbic System
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The choice of a paradigm has important consequences for the way in which abnormal behavior is defined, investigated, and treated: the genetic paradigm holds that psychopathology is caused or at least influenced by heritable factors. Biological treatments attempt to rectify the specific problems in the brain or to alleviate symptoms of disorders, often through the use of drugs: the psychoanalytic paradigm derives from the work of sigmund freud. The more contemporary contributions of this paradigm are primarily in treatment, including ego analysis and brief therapy. In both practice and theory, the cognitive behavioral paradigm has usually blended cognitive findings with the behavioral as a method of intervention that is referred to as cognitive behavioral. Cognitive behavior therapists such as beck and ellis focus on altering patients" negative schemas and interpretations: emotion plays a prominent role in a number of disorders. It is important to distinguish among components of emotion that may be disrupted, including expression, experience, and physiology.
