In: Psychology
I. Contemporary Psychodynamic
Founder(s):
Philosophical Assumptions- What’s the Big Idea?:
Model of Personality What Makes People Tick?:
Model of Abnormality- What Makes People Sick?:
Model of Health- What’s the Goal?:
Model of Psychotherapy- What Makes People Well?:
II. Behavior
Founder(s):
Philosophical Assumptions- What’s the Big Idea?:
Model of Personality- What Makes People Tick?:
Model of Abnormality- What Makes People Sick?:
Model of Health- What’s the Goal?:
Model of Psychotherapy- What Makes People Well?:
III. Rational- Emotive
Founder(s):
Philosophical Assumptions- What’s the Big Idea?:
Model of Personality- What Makes People Tick?:
Model of Abnormality- What Makes People Sick?:
Model of Health- What’s the Goal?:
Model of Psychotherapy- What Makes People Well?:
IV. Person-Centered
Founder(s): Carl Rogers
Philosophical Assumptions- What’s the Big Idea?:
Model of Personality- What Makes People Tick?:
Model of Abnormality- What Makes People Sick?:
Model of Health- What’s the Goal?:
Model of Psychotherapy- What Makes People Well?:
I. Contemporary Psychodynamic
Founder(s): Freud, Jung, Erickson.
Philosophical Assumptions- What’s the Big Idea?: Our behavior is affected by our unconscious motives.
Model of Personality What Makes People Tick?: Sex and aggression.
Model of Abnormality- What Makes People Sick?: Unconscious conflicts
Model of Health- What’s the Goal?: Awareness of ones unconscious conflicts
Model of Psychotherapy- What Makes People Well?: Insight oriented therapy
II. Behavior
Founder(s): John.N Watson, B.F Skinner
Philosophical Assumptions- What’s the Big Idea?: Our behavior is acquired learning
Model of Personality- What Makes People Tick?: Classical Conditioning, operant conditioning
Model of Abnormality- What Makes People Sick?: Faulty learning
Model of Health- What’s the Goal?: Positive reinforcement
Model of Psychotherapy- What Makes People Well?: Behavior Modification, Counter Conditioning, Reinforcement
III. Rational- Emotive
Founder(s): Albert Elis
Philosophical Assumptions- What’s the Big Idea?: ABC Model, Events influence beliefs which have consequences
Model of Personality- What Makes People Tick?: Our behavior is made up of events, beliefs and heir consequences.
Model of Abnormality- What Makes People Sick?: Irrational Thought Patterns
Model of Health- What’s the Goal?: Respond rationally to such situations
Model of Psychotherapy- What Makes People Well?: Gain insight into the irrational thought patterns and challenge them.
IV. Person-Centered
Founder(s): Carl Rogers
Philosophical Assumptions- What’s the Big Idea?: Human being strive to fulfill their own potential
Model of Personality- What Makes People Tick?: Natural human inclination “towards self actualization
Model of Abnormality- What Makes People Sick?: Past experience, Incongruence between real and ideal self.
Model of Health- What’s the Goal?: Actualize ones own potential
Model of Psychotherapy- What Makes People Well?: Actualizing own potential and awareness of ones own self.