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Psychology offers many approaches to diagnose and come up with different treatments for each patient. Behavioral, humanistic, and cognitive approaches can be used to analyze Jake’s anxiety. All three would come up with different causes and treatments for Jake.Behavioral psychology would say that Jake’s anxiety developed from his surroundings. If Jake’s counselor was a behaviorist, he would look at Jake’s surrounding and determine what needs to be adjusted to end Jake’s anxiety. He might tell Jake to get help from either his professors or tutors so that Jake can have a better understanding of the information that is taught in the harder classes. Jake can also attempt to ask people from his classes if they want to form a study group so that Jake can be surrounded by people who also find the class difficult. If Jake sees that other people are struggling in the same class as him, it might help him feel better and ultimately end his anxiety. On the other hand, if the counselor was a humanistic physiologist, he would try to analyze Jake’s anxiety by attempting to go through what Jake is going through. He would attempt to feel the same emotions as Jake and have the same thoughts so he can really understand Jake’s situation. The counselor would want Jake to share his feelings and understand that he is not the only person that is going through the same problem. That might cause Jake to realize that he had the ability to study hard and eventually pass his difficult classes. Cognitive psychology would cause the counselor to study Jake’s mind and mental function. The counselor might look at the way Jake is learning; he could also look at Jake’s reasoning, memory, and decision making. This is because a cognitive psychologist believes that the brain worksas a complex computing system. He might ask Jake what he is trying to get out of his difficultcourses. The counselor would then tell Jake if these expectations are realistic or not. If Jake told the counselor that he expects to fail the difficult classes, then the counselor would attempt and make it more positive so that Jake can be more positive. This way Jake would start thinking more positively and he would be less anxious about the difficult classes. These approaches would work because psychology does not have one correct answer or treatment to a situation. Behavioral psychologists would tell Jake to get help from friends or professors so he has a better understanding of a subject. Humanistic psychologists would want to use good thoughts to make Jake find a better way to manage his difficult classes and stress. And finally, a cognitive psychologist would look at Jake’s emotions and turn them into a positive way of thinking and ultimately Jake will have more confidence towards his difficult


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