I shall be assessing the different psychological approaches and these are the psychodynamic, biomedical, behaviourist and cognitive approaches.

M1: Assess different psychological approaches to study.
In this assignment I shall be assessing the different psychological approaches and these are the psychodynamic, biomedical, behaviourist and cognitive approaches.
The first approach I shall be assessing is the biomedical model. This model just focuses on the symptoms of a condition rather than contributing factors which could cause the condition. This model has plenty of evidence to support its claims from research and studies, for example this model suggests that schizophrenia is caused by the imbalance of genes and the changes in the distribution of the brain cells. However even though there is evidence to prove some points there could also be other contributional factors such as the environment as the environment could also cause schizophrenia and this may be because of implications in their developmental stages of their life which has caused this condition. This model is mostly used by the NHS as they offer treatments that they are aware of and this is seen as a comfortable environment where people can seek support without being scared of going into an unfamiliar environment. However this can be seen as a disadvantage to others as the biomedical model is allowing patients to be dependant on doctors and their technology and they are not improving their lifestyle by themselves. For example people that are overweight are depending on surgery and gastric bands which are funded by the NHS and are not losing weight themselves by exercising.

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This essay aimed to examine various psychological perspectives. Appropriate theories were identified and it did appear that the writer had a good understanding of them. However for this understanding to come through more clearly, there is a need to proofread the work carefully as there were frequent grammar errors. There were several comments regarding research, but there was no evidence of these studies, i.e. they should be named. This strengthens the points the writer makes about strengths and weaknesses. 3/5