Question

Jake has become very anxious ever since he started taking harder classes in his major. The university's counselor diagnosed him with an anxiety disorder. Compare and contrast how the behavioral, humanistic, and cognitive approaches would view the origins and treatment of Jake's anxiety. Then, describe how psychologists view each of the three approaches today."

Answer 1

Answer:

According to the behavioral approach, Jake´s anxiety is determined by the frustration of not achieving his goals

Explanation:

According to the behavioral approach, Jake´s anxiety is determined by the frustration of not achieving his goals, in this way it is possible to notice that Jake is conditioned by the idea that good grades are associated to good results, and bad grades are associated at the same time to bad consequences. This approach would recommend for Jake´s treatment a reward program in which he receives something good, something he likes after the effort he is making to reach his goals.

On the other hand a humanistic approach all the essential needs have been covered for Jake, reason why for him it is necessary to have higher goals, for instance Jake must make an extra effort in order to grow as an individual, his anxiety disorder is explained from the fear he feels to think that he possibly does not fulfill all the requirements to complete the goal. The humanistic approach would treat Jake by teaching him all the possible ways he has to discover he is the only one able to control his own life.

Finally the cognitive approach would affirm that Jake already had the predisposition for such disorder once this is considered as a genetic problem, this approach would recommend medicine to treat Jake´s problem.

All the approaches are different in the perspective they have of the problem. Nevertheless, they all have in common that they find the anxiety disorder presented by Jake as problem to be solved, all of them agree that is a special case that needs some help.