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Running head: PSYCHOSOCIAL THEORY 1Psychosocial TheoryNameInstitution
PSYCHOSOCIAL THEORY 2IntroductionThe social work theory helps one to understand more of someone’s way of thinking andlife. This is through facts, concepts, findings, and principles. This will help you provide meaningand answers to someone’s behavior through the four theories that are psychosocial,psychodynamic and system theory and their applications in treating clients.Psychosocial TheoryErikson influenced this theory. Nevertheless, it focuses means by which people areshaped and respond to the social environment. Based on Erikson’s model, the sense of peopleindividually grows and evolves while in contact with social crises in their lifespan thuscompelling them to adapt and respond. Such social crises entail mistrust against the trust,inferiority against an industry that informs such qualities as competency, self-worth, ethics,isolation vs. intimacy and self-centered that give the foundation for hatred and love (Young-Eisendrath, 2015). All the social crises outlined by Erickson inform the manner in which people viewthemselves and their reaction to people around them and the world at large as well as specificskills in life they develop. All these crises, cumulatively establish the schedule used by socialworkers to treat the clients and the particular services received by their clients and the manner inwhich specific clients differ from the desired standards and their progress per treatment. Systems TheorySystems theory is a theory that works with some factors to show one's behavior. This is aperson’s home and works environment, school, parents, siblings, friends, and other more factorsinfluences how someone thinks acts and reasons’. Seeking to help someone may impact youeither positively or negatively according to the factors
PSYCHOSOCIAL THEORY 3A case is presented where a client engaged in risky conduct like unsafe safe and drugabuse. After examination of the client’s environment, the test revealed that the client hadcontacts with friends engaged in such activities and had neglected his parents, so most memorieswere of how he used to take the drugs. This resulted in self-medication by the client as thingswent astray and gave a weak social model for connection and less support emotionally (Bashamet al., 2016).A social worker in a system theory has to observe and examine each system whichcontributes to the behavior of a person and his welfare as well as work towards strengtheningsuch system. This could assume the form of positive role models’ provision, therapy as well asadditional services that help in creating a support system for a person (Lazaratou, 2017).Psychodynamic TheoryAccording to researchers, it tends to clarify the reason people conduct themselves in aparticular manner and the reasons for why. As opposed to behavioral psychology that employsscientific methods in determining causal linkages between people’s conducts alongside theirsurroundings, this model emphasizes on the inner world of a person that is divided into ego, IDalongside superego. In this model, the ID entails primal drive in seeking pleasure and evade pain.The superego involves societal expectations, conscience, and social mores (Zerbe, 2015). The ego attempts to get realistic means of finding comfort and avoiding pain in abalanced manner. Led by these factors, the unconscious mind seeks and create anxiety thustriggering the adoption of defense means individuals that improve their dealing with innerconflict’s stress (Kail & Cavanaugh, 2018). It is imperative for social workers to recall that sucha battle is in existence and that no one displays conduct in the absence of reason explaining whythey behave in such a manner (Harper, 2016). Determining such a rationale can assist social
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