A review of journal on nervous and mental disease

A review of journal on nervous and mental disease

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Introduction

The   study of counseling psychology entails details of the person history which helps in bringing out the underlying issues about their state of health. Nervous and mental diseases are ranked amongst the troublesome and expensive of human diseases when it comes to management. Mostly psychologists are concerned with the study of nervous and mental diseases of humans due to humanity’s highest potential, and with the recognition, understanding, and realization of spiritual, and transcendent states of consciousness.  Most schools of thought discussing on psychology   have identified five key themes predominantly featured in these definitions: states of consciousness, higher or ultimate potential, transcendence, and the spiritual. Though the field is big and touches on many aspect,  the authors  working on the journal of nervous and  mental diseases have helped in putting all needed  information  under one volume(Budde,2010,pp 10-17).

What authors were trying to do

      Psychological authors had a very strong   insight when it came to patients especially the post therapeutic times. Authors were majorly concerned with influence on the patients rather the type of psychotherapy used by the therapist. Accordingly, most contemporary learning centers of psychotherapy laid emphasis on   the healing power of the therapeutic relationship.

This edition  was   extensively discussed   and even a debate held  on psychotherapy  where  a former statistician studying primarily signs and manifestation with depressed patients, reported that ;psychotherapy  could be more effective  compared with   placebo, he also alluded that  no single treatment mode had  the edge in efficacy, finally, he made an assertion that the factors common to   varied   psychotherapies, such as whether or not the therapist  had established a  good  working alliance with the patient, accounted   much more  to  the discrepancies  in outcomes than  modalities  specific techniques.Whilst  some report  on  the  some  postulated  that by attempting to  manualize or  program   treatment,psychotherapists may actually had been  reducing  in  efficacy, although the unplanned   approach of many psychotherapists could not  appeal to clients   motive to solve their  state of health   through the application of specific techniques  in addition to  their traditional approaches(Wilber,2004,pp39-48)

While  much  early  work on this subject was generated from a  psychodynamic perspective, authors   from other orientations have since written a lot on it and  It has been discovered  that their alignment  seem  to predict treatment adherence  and  concordance together with the outcome across a range of patients diagnoses and treatment  modalities.

Also authors aimed at bringing to fore the statistical power of the therapeutic approaches and   the extratherapeutic influences like client motivation and the severity of the problems due to specific techniques used.

How the authors did it

  Needless to say majority of the authors actually came from the some field of practice, and accessing   both the secondary and primary data was easy. For instance the works on eating disorders-a disease, which had widely been written on and many packages published mainly by the American family physician, in collaboration with the American Psychiatric Association. But   this doesn’t mean the authors never put into consideration various aspects that to some extent serve as predisposing factors   to neural and mental disease causation. A good analogy is when authors consider personality traits especially those associated with the increased   problems on eating disorders.

       At this point authors  puts it  that  during   adolescence these  characters become intensified due to a  wide range   of cultural  and  physiological influences like, hormonal changes mostly related to   puberty, stress  associated with  the approaching demands of socio-cultural influences and maturity and perceived expectations, especially in areas that concern body image.

            The writers also used parameters on environment to exemplify .............