psychology assinemnt\ less than 6 hours.
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topic_2_b.docxFirst student discussion:
When treating a psychological disorder such as depressive disorder often using one method alone is not the best option. When treating depressive disorder often times medication is prescribed to the patient. The medications is made to help the patient with the symptoms of depression, but it does not often address the underlying causes that have given the patient the depressive disorder. Having the medication is only a temporary fix for the depression, because all it does is suppress the feelings the patient has, and it does not do anything to get rid of the problem in the long term. That is why insight therapies are often recommended to go along with the medication that is prescribed.
Insight therapies are often known as talk therapies. These are manners in which the person who is administering the therapy is doing their best to change the person on the inside. The person doing the therapy wants the patient to change they way that they think and feel. There are many different ideas about how to go about the therapy, the psychoanalysis method is the method developed by Freud which states that the problem is somewhere in the unconscious part of the brain. Rogers's idea was client-centered therapy which addresses the conscious part of the brain and assumes the problem is in there. In both of these methods the therapist is trying to get rid of the problem causing the depression and therefore ending the problems of depression on a long term basis.
Second student discussion:
Major depression is a mood disorder involving disturbances in emotion (excessive sadness), behavior loss (loss of interest in one’s usual activities), thoughts of hopelessness, and body function (fatigue and loss of appetite). Symptoms of depression would include depressed mood, reduced interest in almost all activities, significant weight gain or loss, sleep disturbances, changes in motor activity, fatigue, feelings of worthlessness, reduced ability to think, and recurrent thoughts of death. Major depression has a wide range of symptoms and that’s why it makes sense that sometimes a combination of drug and therapy treatment is needed to to see overall improvement.
A humanistic therapy would most likely be the most effective in helping someone with major depression. The overall goal of this therapy is to change the way that people see themselves, and for someone with depression this is a very big thing. If drugs were used at the same time, there would be better psychological improvements. Also, since these drugs tend to have bad side effects, it works well because it allows the therapist to not only help with the depression through therapeutic techniques, but it allows the therapist to also monitor the mental state of the patient. This limits the risk of some of the adverse effects that the medication can have on the brain of the patient. It also limits the chance of the depression symptoms getting worse from continuous or overuse of the drugs because the therapist is meeting with patient regularly. The face to face weekly meetings can go a long way in making sure the patient is headed in the right direction.
