Health Psychology

Running head: HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY Health Psychology Student’s Name Institution’s Name Instructor’s Name Course Name Evaluatiation of Models of Behavior An integrated behavioral service for older people is important and thus should be improved (Sadock, Kaplan & Sadock, 2007). For this reason, clinicians have to evaluate different models of behavior that are evident in patients that visit their clinics. There are several perspectives and theories that tend to explain the cause of abnormal behaviors in individuals (Sadock et al, 2007). As for the case of John, he admits his change in behavior both at home and at work place. John is not in a position to do any other thing apart from drinking, as much as he is in dept and social crisis. From the medical perspective, there is a focus on both physiological and biological factors that can alter the behavior of an individual. Clinicians can attend to this as sickness or mental ailment after a diagnosis based on the symptoms and treated through medication (Aghababia & Allison, 2006). This explains the reason as to why John had to be taken through a series of tests to diagnose the real cause of the problem. In some cases, hospitalization and drugs acts as a better intervention other than psychological care. According to research, biochemical disorders can lead to change in behavior which can only be administered medically (Sadock et al, 2007). Behavioral perspective has been supported on the basis that abnormal patterns of behavior result from wrong unproductive education and training (Brannon, 2010). The purpose of treatment in this case is to bring to the right shape the disordered characters. This is done using traditional learning methods to teach new but appropriate adoptive methods that will lead to improved behavior. For example, a case of child abuse may rise because one learned the behavior from the father who used to abuse them. For this reason, education is the only way that new ideas can be adopted to change behavior (Gurung, 2010). When evaluating models of behavior, it is important to consider the psychodynamic perspective related to the behavioral changes being witnessed. Evaluation using this method is an alternative to the medical perspective and it is adopted from the Freudian psychoanalytic theory. From this theory, it is contented that psychological disorders are part of the consequences of anxiety that results from some unresolved and comatose disagreements (Sadock et al, 2007). Treatment of this problem is mainly focused on the identification of what might have been the cause and the resolution of the conflict. Some people engage in abnormal behavior because of certain cognitive problems. People involve in unusual behavior because of certain specific thoughts and activities that are based of either their wrong assumptions or the things they cannot do but have to do them (Lessenger & Roper, 2009). For example, from the case study, John’s behavior has changed because of debts. Treatment of this kind of behavior is aimed at helping the victim develop a new thinking process and new principles. The therapy needed here is by replacing the maladaptive habits with the right and useful ones (Brannon, 2010). Finally, evaluation of models of behavior can take a social-cultural ...