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Question: Critically assess the contribution of the behaviourist, psychoanalytic, family systems and cognitive models to the understanding of developmental processes (with a focus on attachment, initiative, and control) which are involved in major depression and anorexia nervosa.
Answer: Developmental psychopathology is an integrative approach combining a number of theoretical perspectives and thus tapping the empirically validated contributions of different schools of thought in order to understand the emergence of psychopathology across the life-span (Norcross, 1997). Developmental psychopathology integrates behaviour, cognition, unconscious processes and family processes in order to establish a comprehensive understanding of the development of psychopathology (Cicchetti, 1984; Wenar & Kerig, 2000). This essay will focus on the contribution of the behaviourist, psychoanalytic, family systems and cognitive models to the understanding of developmental processes (with a focus on attachment, initiative, and control) which are...(short extract)
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- Subject: Psychology
- Course: Health Psychology and Psychopathology
- Level: Degree
- Year: 2nd/3rd
- Mark: 71%
- Words: 2706
- Date submitted: February 05, 2009
- Date written: April, 2005
- References: Yes
- Document type: Essay*
- Essay ID: 2854
