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Theories Informing Policy
Individualistic Theories
Behavioural Therapy
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What is it?
umbrella term for types of therapy that treat
mental health
disorders or
personality
disorders
aversion therapy
What theory informs the Policy?
Bandura
:
Social Learning
Theory
Freud
:
Psychoanalysis
Eysenck
:
Personality
Theory
Application
aversion therapy
seeks to change
potentially destructive behaviours
based on the idea that behaviour is
learnt
an aversion stimulus is paired with an
undesirable behaviour
to
reduce
or
eliminate
it
Arguments For
conditional
behaviour
supports
individualistic
theories
Arguments Against
not always
humane
Does it Work?
can be used to find the
underlying
cause of some
violent
crimes
not
conclusive
in its findings