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Psychology: Case study #6

Names:jaclyn

For the case study listed below you are to attempt to identify how each of the six (seven?) approaches to psychology would attempt to explain and solve the issues brought up. Please be as detailed as you can be. Only one summary needs to be turned in for your group.

Kathy is a twenty-one year old female. Kathy is in her senior year at a prestigious university and is studying pre-law. Kathy has always been a straight A student and fine athlete. Kathy has been told she should enter a local beauty pageant because of her incredible looks. Recently Kathy has been preoccupied with food. She is concerned that she is becoming overweight and has begun counting and recording all of her calories. She has also given some thought to smoking as a way to help her maintain her weight. On several occasions Kathy has admitted to throwing up her food, but indicated she might have had a mild case of food poisoning or the flu. Kathy’s weight is actually going down and her friends are concerned for her.

How would each of the psychological approaches we have discussed explain what is happening to Kathy and how would they prescribe treatment?

Biopsychological- She is losing weight. She thinks she is to fat so she is trying to lose weight

Behaviorism- Her environment is telling her to be skinny, so she is making herself lose weight

Humanism- She is just making herself better by losing weight

Psychoanalytical- She is unconsciously making herself lose weight.

Cognitive-She wants to lose weight to win the beauty pageant

Sociocultural- Her culture expects her to be skinny and win the beauty pageant, her culture values physical looks

Eclectic (best combination of all approaches) She wants to lose weight to be in a beauty pageant so she can feel better about herself and to feel more values by her community

What other information would you like to have to help you get a clearer picture of what is happening to Kathy? If she actually have the flu or not