Psychological Theories and Diversity in Social Care Work

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TABLE OF CONTENT
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
Describing why diversity exists in two human in the light of psychological theories:...............3
The psychodynamic perspective theory:......................................................................................4
Behavioural theory of psychology:..............................................................................................5
Cognitive psychology theory:......................................................................................................7
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................8
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................1

INTRODUCTION
Social work is psychologically oriented towards treating mental illness of individual or a
group and empowering them to meet the requirement in bringing betterment to themselves and to
the society. Psychology is important in social work because this allows social worker to
understand behaviour of human and bring changes (Kalat, 2016). Psychology is very important
in the field of social environment hence it removes the barrier in deliver community service to
the people and society. In this report will discuss three psychological theories such as
psychodynamic theory, behavioural theory and cognitive theory.
MAIN BODY
Describing why diversity exists in two human in the light of psychological theories:
Every human being is different from each other, they have their own perspective and
behaviour. Diversity exist in everyone this diversity show case the natural differ endowment,
human diversity can be described as biological and cultural difference and variation. Diversity in
human being are basic and important, diversity divide people according to various subject, these
are age, gender, physical and mental identity, capabilities and emotion of human being, these are
some basic division in the human being which divide them from each other. Diversity exist in the
human being because they belong to different culture and human variation. Human are
diversified in various form such as through societal form, individual form and through
geographic form (Luyten, et.al., 2017). Social diversity state society and status of individual in
the society whereas individual form state the age, gender and mental stability and geographic
form state that human are diversified according to the cultural and regional difference in the
nation or a particular location. Social psychology state that every human behaviour diversity
which keep them apart from others, in social work a social worker understand the social prospect
and behaviour of individual or group. There is great role psychological theories in delivering
community social work to the society. There are three main theory of psychology from two
different school of psychology, these theories include: