In your 2000-2500 word assignment you should:
• Identify and explain treatments/therapies/interventions proposed by two or more perspectives in psychology appropriate to two or more of the persons/situations in the scenario (LO 1)
• Identify key characteristics of these perspectives (LO 1)
• Evaluate the effectiveness of these treatments/therapies/interventions for specific behaviours /cognitions/states of consciousness/emotional states (LO 1)
• Apply these perspectives to at least two examples from the scenario (LO 2)
• Evaluate methods of data gathering used to develop and/or apply these treatments/therapies/ interventions (LO 2)
• Write the assignment with clear expression of ideas and a logical structure
• Include in-text referencing and bibliography of sources using the Harvard referencing system
You may submit a draft of your assignment to your tutor for comments but this must be done well before the submission date to enable you to make any changes and still hand your assignment in on time
Scenario
Mr. Stephen Galbraith, aged 52, is a consultant heart surgeon who, from the beginning of his marriage, has travelled abroad extensively working for a charity. His wife, Marisa, aged 50, was a minor celebrity cat-walk model in her younger days and now spends much of her time pursuing plastic surgery and other beauty treatments. She has a younger brother, Simon, aged 41, who left home as a teenager , became homeless, and has since lived a precarious existence in and out of hostels. He is believed to be a heroin addict but neither Marisa or any of the family are in touch with him.
Stephen and Marisa have three children who were brought up largely by a series of nannies.
Alice, aged 25, is anorexic and sometimes bulimic. She suffers very low self- esteem despite the fact that she co-owns a very successful high-end designer clothes shop with a loyal core of wealthy customers. She is unmarried and finds it difficult to maintain relationships with the opposite sex.
Susannah, 30, was born before Marisa’s marriage and lived with her grandmother, now dead, until her mother married Stephen. She has had no contact with her natural father who has no wish to be involved in her life. She is agoraphobic to the extent of refusing to leave her home. Her husband, Alex, is a GP and is very sympathetic to her condition. He does all the shopping and all chores which necessitate leaving the house, such as taking the cars to be serviced, the dogs to the vet, et cetera. Susannah will not ‘allow’ him nights out , insisting that she needs to have him at home. They have no children. Alex is suffering from several symptoms of stress including insomnia and irritability at work.
Toby, 20, was adopted as Marisa wanted a son but was unwilling to become pregnant again for fear of damaging her figure and career prospects. Toby knows he is adopted and thinks he knows why. He has been diagnosed as a borderline paranoid schizophrenic . He has frequent outbursts of anger but manages, so far, to hold down a job in a supermarket. He lives at home with Marisa and has a talent for devising computer games but at the moment this is just a hobby.
