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What are the strengths and weaknesses of the Cognitive approach in psychology?

i am doing an essay for psychology and im stuck!! help me please :)

One weakness: The cognitive approach is most effective in mollifying weak psychological traumas, such as neuroses, rather than psychoses.

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2 Responses to “What are the strengths and weaknesses of the Cognitive approach in psychology?”

  1. frumps Says:
    August 5th, 2009 at 9:55 pm

    One weakness: The cognitive approach is most effective in mollifying weak psychological traumas, such as neuroses, rather than psychoses.
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  2. Lucas H Says:
    August 5th, 2009 at 10:18 pm

    Well, to be honest, there are a lot of strengths. I will put them into some kind of order for you.

    1. The most researched approach in all of psychology. Research backs it up as best treatment practice or in top three approaches for almost every single disorder in the DSM-IV TR that is non-developmental (ie alzheimers, MR/DD, etc)
    2. Can be done rather quickly with lasting change
    3. Fairly easy to learn
    4. Works for a lot of people

    Weaknesses
    1. Can be seen as non-person centered
    2. Not effective for lower functioning clients
    3. Some clinicians feel that it doesn’t address other issues.

    That is just brief, hopefully it helps!
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