You are a therapist treating a person for depression. Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of psychodynamic therapy and cognitive therapy to treat depression. Which of these options would you recommend?

Advantages of cognitive theory to treat depression are as follows-

1. This therapy can be useful in treating the patient like medicines and prove sometimes very effective in mental health.

2. Fast remedial power comparing with other persisting solutions with more effective outcomes.

3.Mainly emphasized On the restructuring of the thoughts to make patient feels better

4. With the highly structured format usually breaks the problems into a different format and deals with the individual format significantly for better outcomes.

Disadvantages of cognitive therapy are as follows-

1. CBT is a therapy based on different formats. It can solve the problem only when one is ready for his self-motivation.

2. CBT is a highly time-consuming therapy it usually takes a lot of to treat the patient.

3.CBT according to the scholars it focuses on current circumstances rather than the other root cause of the problem.

4.CBT is confined only to personal thoughts but not to focus on the wider perspective.

Advantages of psychodynamic therapy for treating the patient are as follows-

1. It increases self-esteem.

2. It helps in creating to have more satisfying relationships.

3.It helps in boosting the personal confidence

4.It trained the people in confronting the challenges.

Disadvantages of psychodynamic therapy are as follows-

1. The main problem with this therapy is that it lacks a scientific approach for the analysis of human behaviour.

2. Most of their theories are subjective rather than scientific.

In treating the patient with depression if a person focusses on long term outcome he might go to psychodynamic but on the other hand if he targets on short time solution which focuses on only the current cause he might go to CBT therapy.

Advantages of drugs using in the treatment of depression are as follows-

1._These are statistically effective in terms of their satisfactory outcomes while treating the patient.

2. These usually involve less involvement of the patient its only focus on pills intakes in a timely.

3.As they are highly efficient they work like that they are not addictive.

4. It also comes with cost-effective nature which makes it a more opted solution.

Disadvantages of drugs used in depression are as follows-

1. It takes up time to work effectively so basically it requires time to make some impact.

2. It includes rapid weight gain

3. It includes sudden low sex drive

4. It also makes a different psychological effect like mood swings etc.

To treat the patient different methods are used which are discussed

1. CBT therapy -It's relevant to the persons struggling with the addiction of smoke and drinking habits. It can be useful for the person targeting for short duration solution.

2.Psychodynamic therapy-

It's relevant to the personal reflection it encounters the basic persisting problems it not only emphasises the current problems but also emphasizes the roots cause of the persisting problem.

Several other theories are available for treating the depression.Based on the persisting situation the persons should opt the persisting therapy as discussed above.Each individual theory deals with the different ideas and different perspective.Based on the circumstance the person should opt the relevant option for the treatment.