Situation: a high school guidance counselor calls a psychologist to terry, who is opting to take failing grades because she refuses to speak in front of the class. she reports having severe social anxiety, and she panics when she feels that people are focusing on her.
history: her grandmother is a shut-in, who has never visited neighbors and goes out only when she needs to shop at the grocery. her mother avoids social situations, and she hardly knows anyone at her work.
question: how do the following psychological approaches differ in the way they explain this situation?
• psychodynamic approach
• behaviorist approach
• cognitive approach
• humanistic approach
• biomedical approach