Psychological and Sociological Concepts in Patient Care

Patient Profile
Information and history of patient:
Raj is 55 year old person, who is currently admitted into hospital in UK, due to
alcoholism. He loses his wife, lives in Kensington and working as lawyer. Raj drink alcohol
very much that is the reason which make them ill, he recently involved in car accident where
Raj lost his two children and wife. He face difficult situation in their life which affects on his
mental abilities and make him ill.
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Patient details and history:
Lucy is twenty four year women and has been currently hospitalized in hospital due
to overdosed on painkillers. She is single parent & living in deprived area in Blackpoll within
two-bedroom flat with her children one son, who is only four year old. She belongs to poor
family background and take behave unethical.
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Psychological and sociological concepts aid to develop better comprehend of service
users in both case studies with an example from work setting
Psychological and Sociological concept
Sociological concept is based three concepts such as functionalism, feminism and
interactionism.
Feminism, it is the range of political movements, social movements and ideologies
that share same goal to establish, define and gain political, personal, economic and social
equality of activity. It includes needs to establish professional and educational opportunities
for women that equal to those for men (Finke, 2018). Feminism concept is based on belief
that women and men should have the equal opportunities and rights to grow in their career
more. In accent time most of the women were close to domestic sphere and men are reserved
for public life, it will affect human behaviour the most. At this movement women are not
allowed to take part in any public activities, they need to work or perform under domestic
sphere which is one of the biggest barriers in human healthcare functions. Feminist
movement have campaigned and proceed to campaign for the rights of women's, in addition
right to vote, to work, to hold public office, to earn fair or equal wages or pay, to receive high
education, to have same rights within any relationship like marriage, to enter contracts and to
have maternity leave. Many years ago women were denied rights to study in which men still
had the rights to rule in public life. After the changes in social behaviour or culture women's
like to play their role in public life and prefer for conducting businesses without male person
(Hirsch and Keller, 2015). Feminists movement refers to the range of political campaign
which reforms on issues such as domestic violence, women's suffrage etc. they work a lot for
the rights of women's, feminists worked to assure access to have maternity leave and legal
abortions, they protect girls and women from sexual harassment, domestic violence, rape and
other activities that effect their health.
Functionalism concept refer functionalists believe that without shared beliefs and
values, collective conscience, accomplish social order is impossible. Social order is important
for well being of human and society. They trust that value accord forms basic desegregation
principles in society. Functionalism is concept of sociological according to which
communities and society consists of various but connected parts, each of that serves specific
purpose. It is the social sciences' concept based on assumption, that all aspect of society,
committee, institutions, norms etc, work together and serve services with the same purpose.
Without any interaction and collaboration individual will never grow in their lives as whole
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(Koss Hartmann, 2014). Individual or group of people in society will need to communicate
with another group of members which helps to increase their knowledge and skills. Without
any interactions' society will survive for longer term of period which negatively affect human
and well being of people. One nation or country does not have all the assets or resources to
grow or to become developing country, some extent they need support form another. With
the help of good collaboration and interaction one nation will be able to take helps form the
other ones which helps to grow more and more.
In sociological, interactionism the concept that derive social procedure from human
interaction. In is the concept of how people shape society and are shaped by it through
meaning that create in interaction. Interactionism defines the whole process of interactions
with another via symbols, voice etc (Denzin, 2016). social interaction is face to face
procedure that consist of activities, action, mutual adaption and reactions between two or
more people's. It also includes human interaction and animal interactions such as mating. The
process of interaction has been included all languages and mannerisms, the main goal of
interaction is to collaborate and communicate with another in society.
Psychological concept-
Psychological concept is used to provide the best model of understanding human
emotions, thoughts and behaviors. All the concepts has been proposed with the common
purpose to predict and explain different aspects of human behavior.
Development concept is one of the best concept, it provides appropriate frame work
for thinking about people growth, learning and human development. This concept defines
basic understanding of human development that is essential to grow. Development means
growth or improvement in human behavior in society. Development of individual person in
society is very important for well being of human (Rayton and Yalabik, 2014). It helps them
to survive in their lives and make people capable to perform well. People go through many
changes in their lives and learn something new or different which helps to grow professional
and personal development. Development concept is based on the growth and development or
improvement of human's throughout its lifespan. Individual experience many things which
make changes in their behavior, nature, emotions and intelligence. In development process
people learn things through observing another person reactions or actions. By learning and
understanding the thought or feeling of another, individual's learn unique or different
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