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Psychosocial Disorder Usually, individuals choose therapy in the bid to cure psychosocial disorder as required by the medical practitioners. There is no guarantee however that these, therapy sessions will work. According to medical dictionary psychosocial disorder is a mental illness usually caused by certain life experiences, as well we disturbed cognitive and behavioral processes. A therapist who focuses only on the normal session process and techniques are more likely to fail; this is according to research done by Doctor Scott Sells on Undercurrents. This paper seeks to determine practice perspectives and practice theories or models used by Scott Sells in his article to help the disturbed patient(Maria) and her family. QUESTION 1 There are various practices that therapists are required to apply, for them to achieve their target of success in treatment. Not all patients are easy to treat, and not all are treated by the time they come to the end of their therapy period. However, as seen from the article by Scott Sells, a therapist should try by all means possible to ensure the patient receive their all. Every Psychosocial disorder has several practice theories that each counselor employs in helping their patients and the family members of the patients. Some of the theories used are; environmental or system theories, Grief and loss theories, social support theory and human developmental theory (Ene-Obong et al. 2013). In this article by Scott, all these theories seem to have been used for effectiveness. However, this paper will discuss only two and show instances in which they are used. Doctor Scott Sells uses the social support theory to do his psychosocial assessment
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