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Welcome to the Approaches Menu. Different psychologists make different assumptions about the particular aspects of a person that are worthy of study, which helps to determine an underlying model or image of what people are like. In turn, this model or image determines a view of the nature of development, preferred methods of study, the nature of psychological normality, the major cause(s) of abnormality and the preferred methods and goals of treatment. However, not all of these apply to every approach. An approach is a perspective that isn't as clearly outlined as a theory and that: .....provides a general orientation to a view of humankind. It says, in effect, "we see people as operating according to these basic principles and we therefore see explanations of human behaviour as needing to be set within these limits and with the or those principles understood." (Coolican et al. 1996) All the major approaches include two or more distinguishable theories or strands, but within an approach, they share certain basic principles that give them a distinct identity. Click here to learn about the BEHAVIOURAL APPROACH Click here to learn about the BIOLOGICAL APPROACH Click here to learn about the COGNITIVE APPROACH Click here to learn about the HUMANIST APPROACH Click here to learn about the PSYCHODYNAMIC APPROACH Click here to learn about the SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGICAL APPROACH |
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