---- Original Message ---- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: tips@acsun.frostburg.edu Subject: RE: [tips] "Cure rate" for mental disorders Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2006 08:45:06 -0300
>Hi Everyone, >I have two online abnormal psychology courses this semester, and this >morning one of my students sent this query. I found it very >intriguing and would be interested to hear your responses. I gave >the usual response, but would welcome feedback from those more >learned than I. > >Beth Benoit >Granite State College >Portsmouth NH > >>I was sitting here thinking (I do that quite a lot) about all these >different disorders and >>treatments and different causes of the disorders and I am wondering, >is anyone >>ever "cured" of these disorders? How many of them are situational? >Also have a lot of >>people with mental disorders suffered from a head injury before the >onset of symptoms? >>Like I said just some burning questions I've had!!! Thanks! > >--- It is my understanding that it is incorrect to use the term mental disorders.Preferred terms are problems in living,behavioral disorders and maladjustments. As to treatment effectiveness and cures,Hans Eysenck way way back had data to show that those psychotherapies were ineffective because psychologists tried to follow the mediucal model-the idea that symptoms are the results of underlying causes. Apparently they were able to modify the behavioral symptoms through conditioniong and thought that a cure of the causes were irrelevant. As a matter they thought that the symptoms were the causes. Michael Sylvester,PhD Daytona Beach,Florida --- To make changes to your subscription go to: http://acsun.frostburg.edu/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=tips&text_mode=0&lang=english
