A few ideas about what might come up this year;no of these areas have been mentioned so far…

Cognitive:

• the study of internal mental processes

Biological:

• the influence of genes
• biological structures and neuro-chemistry on behaviour
• evolution and behaviour

Psychodynamic:

• Basic assumptions of the psychodynamic approach
• the role of the unconscious
• psychosexual stages

Humanistic:

• free will
• self-actualisation and Maslow’s hierarchy of needs
• focus on the self
• congruence
• the role of conditions of worth
• the influence on counselling psychology

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