Health And Social Care Level 3 Unit 8 Psychological Perspectives
PYSCHOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES
ELINOR THOMAS
This is an information booklet explaining the main psychological perspectives, the approaches to these perspectives and I will finally evaluate and compare two approaches.
Within Health and Social, there are fie different main Psychological Perspectives:
Behavioural:
This perspective is a basic theory that our behaviour, personality, habits and some of our characteristics are shaped or learned form our surrounding environment. This perspective focuses on how our behaviours change and how positive and negative reinforcements influence behaviours. it looks to understand our behaviours and whether classical conditioning and operant condition influence our behaviours. Skinner and Pavlov and …show more content…
The main focus within thus stage is mouth area and infants will often put thing in and around their mouths and will also chew, suck, bite and try to swallow anything that they can get their hands on. The infant will also enjoy trying new foods and textures. (Nereida M. Littrell, 2012). Freud said that there are two potential reasons why a child could become 'stuck ' in this psychosexual stage:
Being weaned too early or being weaned too late (Stretch and Whitehouse, 2007. Page 384). The second Stage of Freud 's psychosexual theory is the anal stage. This will occur between the ages of eighteen months to three years. The main focus of this stage is the parts of the body associated with potty and toilet training. A child could become 'stuck ' or fixated on this stage if he or she is forced or pressured in to being potty or toilet trained before the child is ready. (Stretch and Whitehouse, 2007. Page 384) After successfully passing through the anal stage, we move on to the phallic stage. This stage is passed through at around 6 years and focuses on the genitals. …show more content…
For example, is someone where to suffer with extreme anxiety and there was no apparent reason, therapists would use this approach to try and access information stored in the persons unconscious mind to explain the behaviour. An example of this would be is a service user had gotten trapped in a dark, small place when they were a child, they may have put the traumatising memory at the back of their mind as a defence mechanism. Then later on in life, they could develop extreme claustrophobia and anxiety. This would also help the therapist know how interact with the service user
ELINOR THOMAS
This is an information booklet explaining the main psychological perspectives, the approaches to these perspectives and I will finally evaluate and compare two approaches.
Within Health and Social, there are fie different main Psychological Perspectives:
Behavioural:
This perspective is a basic theory that our behaviour, personality, habits and some of our characteristics are shaped or learned form our surrounding environment. This perspective focuses on how our behaviours change and how positive and negative reinforcements influence behaviours. it looks to understand our behaviours and whether classical conditioning and operant condition influence our behaviours. Skinner and Pavlov and …show more content…
The main focus within thus stage is mouth area and infants will often put thing in and around their mouths and will also chew, suck, bite and try to swallow anything that they can get their hands on. The infant will also enjoy trying new foods and textures. (Nereida M. Littrell, 2012). Freud said that there are two potential reasons why a child could become 'stuck ' in this psychosexual stage:
Being weaned too early or being weaned too late (Stretch and Whitehouse, 2007. Page 384). The second Stage of Freud 's psychosexual theory is the anal stage. This will occur between the ages of eighteen months to three years. The main focus of this stage is the parts of the body associated with potty and toilet training. A child could become 'stuck ' or fixated on this stage if he or she is forced or pressured in to being potty or toilet trained before the child is ready. (Stretch and Whitehouse, 2007. Page 384) After successfully passing through the anal stage, we move on to the phallic stage. This stage is passed through at around 6 years and focuses on the genitals. …show more content…
For example, is someone where to suffer with extreme anxiety and there was no apparent reason, therapists would use this approach to try and access information stored in the persons unconscious mind to explain the behaviour. An example of this would be is a service user had gotten trapped in a dark, small place when they were a child, they may have put the traumatising memory at the back of their mind as a defence mechanism. Then later on in life, they could develop extreme claustrophobia and anxiety. This would also help the therapist know how interact with the service user