After reading this article you will learn about the psychosocial approaches to therapy in treatment of abnormal behaviour. In-spite of the wide use of biological therapies, nobody can deny the importance of psychosocial therapies. Specially psychotherapy including psychoanalysis has not been forgotten as some might have thought. Thus Alexander (1946) has rightly observed "psychotherapy is not far removed from the [...]
After reading this article you will learn about the Cognitive Behavioural Therapies (CBT) for the treatment of abnormal behaviour. Cognitive behavioural therapies (CBT) emerged in the early 1960s by Ellis (1962). But the first major texts on cognitive behaviour modification appeared only in the, 1970s. The pioneers in this area are Hollon and Kendall (1978), Mahoney (1974), Meichenbaum (1977), Kendall [...]
After reading this article you will learn about the current problems of clinical psychology in India. The problem of mental illness and the position and prospects of clinical psychology in India have been very much neglected and require special attention, in view of the steady rise in the percentage of mental illness. With the influence of urbanisation and civilisation, Western [...]