Psychological Factors in Health and Social Care Settings Report

This report provides an overview of the application of psychology in health and social care settings. It explores the impact of social and biological factors on human behavior, including family, culture, and genetics, and how these factors influence individuals across different life stages. The report also examines the importance of social roles within healthcare, discussing how they affect the well-being of patients and the delivery of care. Key topics covered include social determinants of health, biological factors like genetics and neurotransmitters, and the influence of environment on behavior. The report concludes by emphasizing the significance of psychological theories in understanding and addressing behavioral disturbances, offering insights into the complexities of human behavior within the context of health and social care, and is available on Desklib.

Psychology for Health
and Social Care

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
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Covered in Brochures .................................................................................................................1
TASK 2 ...........................................................................................................................................1
2.1 Social and biological factor that influence human behaviour...............................................1
2.2 Importance of social roles of a health care setting................................................................3
TASK 3 ........................................................................................................................................4
Covered in Leaflet ......................................................................................................................4
CONCLUSION .............................................................................................................................4
REFERENCES ...............................................................................................................................5

INTRODUCTION
Health and social care can be considered as the wide term which plays most effective role
in human life. Human development is regarded as an effective scientific study of various
psychological changes that occurs among human beings in their different stages of life. This is
also described as development psychology (Schmid Hempel and Schmid-Hempel, 2011). This
report will explain the important and effectiveness of social roles in health and social care
setting. In this various level of stress and its psychological application and how such theories are
related with behavioural disturbances like attention deficit disorder and many others will also
explain in detail manner. In today's modern scenario people are very much concern towards their
health and security and health has a positive as well as a negative impact on humans behaviour.
TASK 1
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TASK 2
2.1 Social and biological factor that influence human behaviour.
Social factor can be considered as the thing which affect human life style such as family,
wealth, culture, norms, beliefs, wealth and religion. There is rapid change arises in social factor
due to change in market trend and customers choice. The preference of people is based on their
own set of interest, so it is required for each organisation to focused on adopting changes which
are essential for fulfilling the needs and wants of customers in order to satisfying them. This
plays most effective role in health and social care sector as it is very much important for health
care industry to identifying various needs and wants of customers, so that proper services can be
provided to them in order to satisfying their needs and wants. Social determinants of health
consist as unequal access to health care, lack of education, poverty, stigma and racism are
underlying and various factors that are related with inequities in health. The Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention is committed to attaining improvements in peoples lives by reducing
health inequities. Biological factors can be described as in schizophrenia which can be
considered as the factors that have been proposed as linked to psychological, genetic,
endocrinology, environmental, metabolic, virological and auto-immunological factors. It also
refers as neurotransmitter system and structural disorders of the human brain (Burr, 2015).
Biological factors are known as genetic factors which affects some specific population more than
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others. There are so many biological factors such as care of young, breeding behaviour, time of
last eating and food storages may arises various changes in daily activity patterns. Environmental
factors also has a huge impact on causing various changes in daily activities pattern such as
temperature, food supply, snow cover, disturbance caused by humans in urban setting also
affects the changes in pattern of daily activities. Biological factor is also considered as the key
aspects that affects function and behaviour of living organism. From inside this factor can be
consist as a physical, psychological, chemical, neurological or genetic situation which helps in
causing a psychological effects. Biological factors are represents as the fundamental
determinants of human behaviour. This also important in influencing human behaviour. Health
and social care sectors are very much concern on evaluating all biological factors in respect of
rendering high quality and best services to their potential buyers, who are very much willing to
taking advantage of offered products and services of hospitality industry (Vogel and Motulsky,
2013). Human behaviour can be described as the capacity of mental, emotional, physical and
various social activities at the different stages of human life like infancy, childhood, prenatal,
adolescence and adulthood. There are so many factors that has a huge impact on influencing on
human behaviour in which some are described as under:
Social factors: In a single factor there are so many socialisation and social factor that directly or
indirectly affects the human behaviour. It can de described as the process which helps in
obtaining knowledge, skills, beliefs and language of an individual through the society and its
norms. This is the major factor which influence the behaviour of people. The family is also a
major factors that has a huge impact on humans behaviour as most of the kids and teenagers
obtain various activities through their family as also believe in the culture and norms that are
followed by their family. Education has a wide impact on humans behaviour, in today's modern
society every one on focused on gaining higher education in order to gaining high position in
their life. As a good education helps an individual to provide proper guidance for moving
towards right direction. A higher level education helps a person to develop their living standard
and the education level also helpful in describing the good or bad nature of an individual. This is
a best way to evaluate the behaviour of an individual (Payne, 2015). Culture, society, norms and
environment or social exclusion and discrimination also has a wide impact on influencing
humans behaviour.
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Biological factors: This is a key element which has a huge impact on humans behaviour, there
are so many biological factors that has direct or indirect impact on humans behaviour. Each
individual has their own character and they behave as per their talent and intelligence level. The
intelligence and talent comes from heredity these are having a vast impact on influencing human
behaviour (Cummings and Druss, 2011).
It is required for health and social care sector to measure the behaviour of each
individual in respect to providing high quality and best services as the the needs and wants of
clients. So that effective solution can be made for overcoming their issues and obstacles which
are faced by them in their life.
2.2 Importance of social roles of a health care setting.
Social factors plays most effective role humans life as it is importance in the lifespan
development and there are various negative effective such as heat loss through various types of
physical and psychological reasons over the life, imbalance condition of hormones, slow down
the metabolic process, nutritional deficiency due to low absorption of nutrients that are important
for human body (Antheunis, Tates and Nieboer, 2013). These all are considered as the natural
elements with life process and no one can fight with this. In these elements any kind of
interruption may case issue and conflicts in development of lifespan. Mental as well as physical
health is important in order to gaining successful ageing and well-being of humans. The effective
ageing is based on attitude, behaviour, social and environmental factors rather than the heredity.
In order to maintain health and social care of well-being of human life, social factors plays most
effective role (Roe and Aspinall, 2011). This is important in maintaining psychological as well as
physical health of people through properly handling nutrition, parental care and removing mental
disorder such as stress, depression. Social care is very much important in the stage of memory
loss, because it helps in generating absent-mindedness. In order to maintain positive attitude and
stress level it is important to each individual to cause restriction of calories intake, reduce
addicts, exercise to maintain physical health. Social sectors are more concern on providing
beneficial goods and services to their potential clients in order to satisfying needs and wants of
people who are facing any kind of mental as well as physical diseases.
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CONCLUSION
As per the above report it has been concluded that psychology plays most effective role
in humans life. Psychological factors has a huge impact on humans behaviour through out
various life stages of human. These different type of human behaviours are also influence the
health and social care of humans. This will helps in generating a better understanding about
various psychological theories over the lifespan development and the biological and social factor
that impact on human behaviour.
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REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Schmid Hempel, P. and Schmid-Hempel, P., 2011. Evolutionary parasitologythe integrated
study of infections, immunology, ecology, and genetics (No. 574.5249 S2).
Burr, V., 2015. Social constructionism. Routledge.
Vogel, F. and Motulsky, A.G., 2013. Vogel and Motulsky's Human Genetics: Problems and
Approaches. Springer Science & Business Media.
Payne, M., 2015. Modern social work theory. Oxford University Press.
Antheunis, M. L., Tates, K. and Nieboer, T. E., 2013. Patients’ and health professionals’ use of
social media in health care: motives, barriers and expectations. Patient education and
counseling. 92(3). pp.426-431.
Roe, J. and Aspinall, P., 2011. The restorative benefits of walking in urban and rural settings in
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Cummings, J. R. and Druss, B. G., 2011. Racial/ethnic differences in mental health service use
among adolescents with major depression. Journal of the American Academy of Child
& Adolescent Psychiatry. 50(2). pp.160-170.
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