Nurs 6640 Week 1 Discussion Post
To prepare:
- Review this week’s Learning Resources, reflecting on foundational concepts of psychotherapy, biological and social impacts on psychotherapy, and legal and ethical issues across the modalities (individual, family, and group).
- Search the Walden Library databases for scholarly, peer-reviewed articles that inform and support your academic perspective on these topics.
By Day 3
Post an explanation of whether psychotherapy has a biological basis. Explain how culture, religion, and socioeconomics might influence one’s perspective on the value of psychotherapy treatments. Describe how legal and ethical considerations for group and family therapy differ from those for individual therapy, and explain how these differences might impact your therapeutic approaches for clients in group, individual, and family therapy. Support your rationale with at least three peer-reviewed, evidence-based sources and explain why each of your supporting sources is considered scholarly. Attach the PDFs of your sources.
Solution
Biological Basis of Psychotherapy Treatments
Neuroscience provides a compelling explanation for the biological underpinnings of psychotherapy. At its core, psychotherapy works by reconfiguring maladaptive brain mappings and fostering the development of healthier neural pathways. Psychiatric disorders often arise from dysfunctional brain networks shaped by stress and traumatic experiences. Psychotherapy targets these problematic mappings, deactivating them while promoting the activation of more adaptive ones (Jiménez et al., 2018).
Research has shown that psychotherapy can significantly influence brain activity. For instance, studies using neuroimaging techniques have demonstrated that therapies like cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) can alter the activity in the prefrontal cortex, a brain region crucial for emotional regulation. In patients with depression, an increased prefrontal cortex activity is often observed, but those who undergo interpersonal therapy show reduced activity in this region, suggesting that psychotherapy can effectively modulate brain function (Marano et al., 2012)… Please click on the Icon below to purchase the full answer at only $5
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