Strengths

• Nature and Nuture :)

  • Strength as unlike other approaches, considers nature and nuture
  • Interactionist
  • Nuture: Influence of childhood
  • Nature: Tripartitate, innate drives eros and thanatos

  EX: Nuture in form of psychosexual stages issues causing frustration
• Applications :)

  • applications in childcare practices

  Approach suggests childhood is a critical period and shapes adulthood personalities

  Bowlby: Benefitted as altering law changes for shared parental leave to reduce seperation

  • Therapy applications

  psychoanalysis to treat mental disorders

  Matt + Naravao said 75% cilents improved
• Reflects the complexities of behaviour (NOT reductionist)

  • Takes a holistic approach as it considers complexities of behaviours and emotions
  • Recongises behaviour is influenced by many factors

  EX: Improves on other approaches that reduce behaviour, eg: behavioural reduces learning to conditioning and ignores cause leading to symptom substition (Little hans)

  Freud is different as considers all factors
• Idiographic

  • Due to methodlogy and case studies it takes an idiographic approach
  • Use of case studies and interviews gives individual insight eg: examining individual factors for psychosis