Learning Objectives By the end of this section, you will be able to: The sociocultural perspective looks at you, your behaviors, and your symptoms in the context of your culture and background. For example, José is an 18-year-old Hispanic male from a…
Learning Objectives By the end of this section, you will be able to: Addiction is often viewed as a chronic disease (Figure 16.18). The choice to use a substance is initially voluntary; however, because chronic substance use can permanently alter…
Learning Objectives By the end of this section, you will be able to: Once a person seeks treatment, whether voluntarily or involuntarily, they have an intake done to assess their clinical needs. An intake is the therapist’s first meeting with the client.…
Learning Objectives By the end of this section, you will be able to: One of the goals of therapy is to help a person stop repeating and reenacting destructive patterns and to start looking for better solutions to difficult situations.…
Learning Objectives By the end of this section, you will be able to: Before we explore the various approaches to therapy used today, let’s begin our study of therapy by looking at how many people experience mental illness and how…
Figure 16.1 Many forms of therapy have been developed to treat a wide array of problems. These marines who served in Iraq and Afghanistan, together with community mental health volunteers, are part of the Ocean Therapy program at Camp Pendleton, a program…
Learning Objectives By the end of this section, you will be able to: The term personality refers loosely to one’s stable, consistent, and distinctive way of thinking about, feeling, acting, and relating to the world. People with personality disorders exhibit a personality style that…
Learning Objectives By the end of this section, you will be able to: Most of the disorders we have discussed so far are typically diagnosed in adulthood, although they can and sometimes do occur during childhood. However, there are a…
Learning Objectives By the end of this section, you will be able to: Dissociative disorders are characterized by an individual becoming split off, or dissociated, from their core sense of self. Memory and identity become disturbed; these disturbances have a psychological…
Learning Objectives By the end of this section, you will be able to: Schizophrenia is a psychological disorder that is characterized by major disturbances in thought, perception, emotion, and behavior. About 1% of the population experiences schizophrenia in their lifetime, and…