Melancholia is increasing day by day under the radical social change. Not only it returns but also melancholia influences enormously family's mental health, which is more than just one individual's unfortune. Moreover, this psychological illness is be...
Melancholia is increasing day by day under the radical social change. Not only it returns but also melancholia influences enormously family's mental health, which is more than just one individual's unfortune. Moreover, this psychological illness is being one of the major factors that leads its patients into committing suicide. Even though the experts recognize its seriousness and developed and implemented a various forms of researches to find out related clues, medical treatments for prevention and healing, and their effects, the number of occurring is still growing.
It is generally known physical therapy works well as a way of treatment, but the problem is that it has a lot of side effects and it relapses. Fundamental cure and checking the returns would be possible only when cognitive side, the main cause of melancholia, is treated. We have concluded that cognitive treatment has no side effects and sustainable remedial value which reduces the return rates and as a result, based on Beck's, we are to prove its effectiveness in decreasing adult melancholia and the possibility to be utilized as one of the social welfare implementing technologies.
This program has been executed for 3 adults with individual counseling, bringing subjects' thought into change through cognitive treatment and reduce melancholia, and consists of 8 times of treatment, once a week.
We used a case-analyzing method, recording the processes and drawing subjects' common troubles out to find out the program's effectiveness. Also, we used standardized measuring kit, recorded their conditions before and after the process and presented the conclusion, the quantitative figures. We combed out the changes between before and after the treatment and ultimately, the possibility to adopt a clinical study.
By seeing three cases, we found out that the reduced extortion of cognitive side of the subjects, transformation of the negative into the positive and enhanced self confidence and self concept. Additionally, although there still is some limitation to generalize it, we have found in each individual improved psychological peace, self confidence and positive thinking while the negative decreased.
The followings are the result of this study. First, the cognitive treatment program is highly effective for adult melancholia. After the treatment the measurement has dropped from 28 to 1 for subject L, 13 to 2 for subject Y and 24 to 6 for J. Subject L and J experienced a tremendous change from extreme-melancholia into normal state. We need to execute this treatment to adult patients.
Second, this program is exceedingly effective to improve psychological welfare. Stress, fear and uneasiness were dissolved and became having hope, desire and self confidence as seeing their circumstances in a positive face.
Third, this program works to enhance a sense of self confidence. The melancholia patients tended to think themselves as a incompetent person or to abase themselves but after the treating process, they became to consider themselves more positively, see themselves in more various sides, control their lives appropriately and convince themselves.
Fourth, this program is highly effective in reducing negative, automatically-occurring thoughts. The patients tended to suffer melancholia because they think too much about the happenings. This negative thinking results in relaxing the distortion of thoughts and induce people into positive sights.
The conclusion through this research program, this cognitive treatment program improve psychological tranquility and self confidence and reduce negative automatically occurring thinking, which leads to reducing adult melancholia in a tremendous amount. This is quite possibly adopted to various kinds of social welfare situation and counseling spots.