cognitive and psychodynamic approach

I learn about cognitive behavioral  is a psychotherapeutic approach, a talking therapy, that aims to solve problems concerning dysfunctional emotions, behaviors and cognitions through a goal-oriented, systematic procedure. The title is used in diverse ways to designate behavior therapy, cognitive therapy, and to refer to therapy based upon a combination of basic behavioral and cognitive research. There are a few assumptions that are central to the cognitive approach. One is that human behavior can be understood by scientific processes. Unlike Freudian psychology, cognitive psychology developed through empirical testing. Another assumption is that human behavior is a series of responses to external stimuli mitigated by our thoughts, perceptions, moods, and desires.

Cognitive psychology is a subdiscipline of psychology exploring internal mental processes. It is the study of how people perceive, remember, think, speak, and solve problems.  Cognitive psychology is radically different from previous psychological approaches in two key ways. It accepts the use of the scientific method, and generally rejects introspection as a valid method of investigation, unlike symbol-driven approaches such as Freudian psychology It explicitly acknowledges the existence of internal mental states (such as belief, desire and motivation). In its early years, critics held that the empiricism of cognitive psychology combined with its acceptance of internal mental states was contradictory. However, the sibling field of cognitive neuroscience has provided evidence of physiological brain states which directly correlate with mental states. In that sense, cognitive neuroscience has vindicated the central assumption of cognitive psychology.

The behavioral approach is based on the psychological theory claiming that individual behaviour depends on the environment the person is in. In contrast, the cognitive approach focuses on the process of thinking as a determining factor that influences behavior.

Human behavior is learned, thus all behavior can be unlearned and new behaviors learned in its place. Behaviorism is concerned primarily with the observable and measurable aspects of human behavior. Therefore when behaviors become unacceptable, they can be unlearned. Behaviorism views development as a continuous process in which children play a relatively passive role. It is also a general approach that is used in a variety of settings including both clinica land educational.

Behaviorists assume that the only things that are real (or at least worth studying) are the things we can see and observe. We cannot see the mind ,the id, or the unconscious, but we can see how people act, react and behave. From behavior we may be able to make inferences about the minds and the brain, but they are not the primary focus of the investigation. What people do, not what they think or feel, is the object of the study. Likewise the behaviorist does not look to the mind or the brain to understand the causes of abnormal behavior. He assumes that the behavior represents certain learned habits, and he attempts to determine how they are learned.

In psychodynamic approach here are various ways to explain the mind. One is a pseudoscientific theory called the psychodynamic approach founded by Sigmund Freud (1856-1939). The broad label of the psychodynamic approach is applied to all theories that consider the psyche as having a conscious and an unconscious part, and whose techniques or therapies deal with the effect of this structure on external relationships and the self. All the theorists of the psychodynamic approach offered lifespan theories. Each describes stages of life and the way the mind develops and is challenged at each stage.