Integrative Literature Review

Thesis Statement for the Integrative Literature Review

Wayne Natoya

Capstone Psychology in Arts of Master :99PSY6

Tyler Tolanda Dr. Instructor:

Campus Global Arizona of University

Feb 27, 2022

Introduction

Psychology is a very diverse field that contain multiple domains. Some studies show that

professionals in each domain of psychology are limited to outcomes from diverse research and

studies for their effectiveness for various interventions and therapeutic treatments. Additionally,

studies also show that some professionals may also be open to new innovative approaches that

may not be evidenced-based but beneficial for clients and patients.

The domain psychopathology is very significant when it comes to diagnosis of patients while

developmental psychology is important in understanding the average cognitive abilities in the

individuals of different ages and life stages. The domain cognitive psychology explains what

causes differences in cognitive abilities in some individuals while psychopharmacology domain

explains the use and investigation of different drugs and how they act on psychological issues.

Thesis statement

An integrative review of literature on the different psychological domains is important in

understanding how life complexities change as people grow. Identifying this knowledge enables

psychologists to pave a way to enlighten the population on this issue. Psychologists have

identified the domain of developmental psychology as the scientific approach that targets

explaining the change, growth, and consistency that occurs in an individual's lifetime (Sell, J.

2018). The domains of developmental psychology are an important area of focus as they tend to

perceive development as continuous progress from modest into more complex understandings of

oneself and the entire world with time. Progress can be continuous or happen in stages, but

constant progress towards more complex understandings is most common. According to Comas-

Diaz and Rivera (2020), these concepts, learning is a continuous process that strives to see the

world learning through increasing complications throughout the lifespan. Although progress

towards development tends to happen all the time, the transitions that occur are gradual, and

psychologists can only perceive it to be moved from one stage to the other.

For this purpose, this domain focuses on reflecting on how individuals feel, think and how

their behaviors change throughout their lives. The main goals of developmental psychology are

to explain, describe and optimize development which is important in understanding normal

patterns of change and personal variations in terms of development which many people will

follow. For this reason, psychologists must seek to explain the changes they have observed in

association with the normative procedures and personal differences.

On the other hand, psychopathologists focus on stressing the possibility that an individual

can move between non-pathological or pathological types of functioning. Even in the middle of

psychopathology, an individual may portray maladaptive and adaptive aspects so that they can

delimit their presence, boundaries, and the attributes of the underlying psychotherapy. Moreover,

psychopathology tends to originate from the perspective that is particularly applicable to the

researcher's transitional turning point during life development (Gazzillo et al., 2020).

Another domain is cognitive psychology, which functions on two primary assumptions,

including human cognition, that should be the least principle. It must be explored using a

scientific method that comprises mental procedures that are easily recognizable and understood.

Cognitive psychology also assumes that internal mental procedures can be defined in terms of

principles of algorithms within the information processing models. From Piaget's point of view

on cognitive psychology, schema entails a broad category of knowledge and the entire process of

acquiring that knowledge (Huitt, W., & Hummel, J. 2003).

On the other hand, psychopharmacology relates to the study of how medications tend to

influence behavior. From this perspective, psychologists analyze the impact a drug has on an

individual, including how it interferes with perception or how an individual thinks. These

changes arise due to the drug's impact on the individual's brain and the central nervous system.

According to Baldessarini R. J. (2014),there is a common debate that new

psychopharmacology drugs might alter symptoms in patients to limit their pain and suffering,

but some psychiatrists argue that they might left inconclusive competency of what was required

to bring about foremost and sustained changes in patients’ behavior and thinking than the

previous decades of drugs that were introduced in the 1950s and 1960s. It is crucial for

professionals in the psychopharmacology domain to continue research studies and debates about

psychopharmacology treatment approaches because it does affect the ethics for patients’

assessment and comprehensive care (Baldessarini R. J. 2014).

In conclusion, the domains developmental, psychopathology, cognitive and

psychopharmacology psychology all contribute towards important aspect of our lives as each

one of them takes a different point of view to describe the course of human development and

psychological functioning. Such knowledge will thus help psychologists and other professionals

in the psychology and psychiatry field with groundbreaking innovative research for treatment

interventions and therapies.

References

Baldessarini R. J. (2014). The impact of psychopharmacology on contemporary psychiatry.

Canadian journal of psychiatry. Revue canadienne de psychiatrie, 59(8), 401–405.

https://doi.org/10.1177/070674371405900801.

Comas-Díaz, L. E., & Rivera, T. (2020). Liberation psychology: Theory, method, practice, and

social justice (pp. xx-314). American Psychological Association.

Gazzillo, F., Fimiani, R., De Luca, E., Dazzi, N., Curtis, J. T., & Bush, M. (2020). New

developments in understanding morality: Between evolutionary psychology,

developmental psychology, and control-mastery theory. Psychoanalytic

Psychology, 37(1), 37.

Huitt, W., & Hummel, J. (2003). Piaget's theory of cognitive development. Educational

psychology interactive, 3(2).

Sell, J. (2018). Definitions and the development of theory in social psychology. Social

Psychology Quarterly, 81(1), 8-22.