Concept of Psychology in HSC | Report
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Concept of Psychology in HSC | Report
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PSYCHOLOGY FORHSC
TABLE OF CONTENTSINTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3TASK 1............................................................................................................................................31.1 Comparing different psychological theories of life span development.................................31.2 Explaining relationship of psychological theories and concept with the specific life stages4TASK 2............................................................................................................................................62.1 Social and biological factor influencing human behaviour...................................................62.2 Analysis of the importance of social roles ............................................................................7TASK 3............................................................................................................................................73.1 Analysis of relationship of psychological theories with behaviour disturbances..................73.2 Application of psychological theories on a person experiencing elevated levels of stress. . .83.3 Psychological theory informing understanding of the mental health disorder......................83.4 Application of psychological principles which affects behaviour change.............................83.5 Enhancement of understanding of relationship in HSC through psychological theories......9TASK 4............................................................................................................................................9Self Evaluation.............................................................................................................................9CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................10REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................112
INTRODUCTIONPsychology is basically defined as the kind of academic discipline which studies thebehaviour and mind of human being. It is an applied science which seeks to understandindividuals and groups by laying down general principles and researching specific cases(Hagarty and Currie, 2012). In Health and Social Care organization, it is essentially required bythe service providers to understand the psychology of all kinds of service users of diverse agegroup. This project report has been prepared for the purpose of understanding the concept ofpsychology in HSC. Furthermore, this report also covers the theories of lifespan development.Moreover, discussion has been made on social and biological determinants of human behaviour.Along with that, description about the psychological theories has been done (Hanwei and et.al.,2014). TASK 11.1 Comparing different psychological theories of life span developmentIn HSC, service providers come into contact with variety of service users. Along withthat, they also experience the people of various life stages that are infancy, early childhood,adolescence, adulthood, late adulthood, final stages of life and finally death. Thus, it can be saidthat a service provider in HSC goes through the lifespan development (Kagitcibasi, 2013). Thereare various theories which describe the life span development of human beings in HSC. In orderto tackle these life span developments, it is crucially required by the service providers of HSC tohave complete knowledge about the psychological behaviour of people (Psychology Theories,2016). Thus, this can be understood by comparing different theories of human development andare described as follows: Erik Erikson Theory:Erikson has propounded the theory of human development and itis a comprehensive psychoanalytic theory in which eight stages have been identified. Inthis, healthy person pass through the stage from infancy to final stage (Arnett, 2011). The8 stages focus on the human behaviour at different span of life. This basically emphasizeon the virtues so that morality can be known through this. This will help the serviceproviders of HSC to identify the behaviour of people in different stages and accordinglyprovide psychological support to them. Moreover, this theory is much more society and3
culture oriented than other theorist (Owen-Smith, Fryxell and Merrill, 2010).Furthermore, he recognized the Freudian Theory while he did not grasp the entirecontent. Hence, Freud focused more on Id but on the contrary, Erik focused on Ego. Kobler Ross: This man propounded the theory in which there are 5 stages of grief.Further, during this stage, human development occurs. When a person looses their lovedones, then firstly they deny for everything and are not ready to accept anything (Masiniand Menichetti, 2012). Later, they move to the stage of anger then at bargaining stage.After that, they get into depression due to the loss of loved one and lastly they accept thefact. Thus, service provider needs to understand all the stages of grief and through thisthey can understand the psychological behaviour of patients as well. Moreover, thistheory helps in forming the psychological behaviour of a person and emotional supportthat can be provided to them if service users have complete knowledge about theirmentality. This theory is highly useful in case when patient is going under suchcircumstances. At every stage, care worker can provide support to the service users(Kintsch and Vipond, 2014). 1.2 Explaining relationship of psychological theories and concept with the specific life stagesThere are several theories such as behavioural theory, cognitive theory, humanistic theoryand many more which are link to the specific life stages of a human being. It is necessary tounderstand the characteristics of the life span (Buhler, 2013). Infancy: This is the shortest period of all development stages which begins from birthand ends up to two weeks. It is a hazardous period in both contexts that is physically andpsychologically. It is because physically infant finds it difficult to adjust in a newenvironment and psychologically they suffer when the attitudes of important peopleradically changes. Early Childhood: It is a problem age for parents as most of them are focused on thephysical care of baby. However, behaviour problems become more frequent andtroublesome than the physical care (Anestis and Joiner, 2011). It is where children learnthe foundations of social behaviour. Adolescence: It is that period of human development which occurs between childhoodand adulthood that is between the age of 10 to 21. Physical changes are marked with the4
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