Psychological Perspectives
Using two different psychological perspectives explain how a worker could apply psychological thinking to one of the following situations. - A teenager who has been diagnosed as having an eating disorder
People who work in the industry of Psychology explore the scientific study of behaviour and see many questions arise about human beings and how certain psychological thinking can explain irregular behaviourisms. There are many different perspectives when it comes to Psychology but some of the main ones are that of Psychodynamic Theory and Behaviourist Theory. Looking at a teenager who has been diagnosed with an eating disorder with these perspectives in mind, may shed a different light on why the disorder has been acquired. The psychodynamic perspective shows an insight to a behaviour suggesting that it is an unconscious force that determines certain characteristics. This analysis has been known to have developed from the theories of Sigmund Freud who ‘became convinced that many of the nervous systems displayed by patients could not be explained purely from a physiological point of view’ (Malim, T, 1992, p14) Behaviours such as phobias fears and irrational self defeating behaviours were therefore suggested to be related to instinctual drives, experiences from childhood and pre-conscious thoughts. The drives that a human being has, conscious on not, regulates their behaviourisms which is therefore seen to have an effect on their emotional and personality development. As well as this, these behaviours are affected by innate emotional forces or the body’s processes. ’the constraints played on the expression of these basic desires by conscious effort on the part of the individuals or as a result of social pressures, parental influences, lead to repression of the desires’ (Burns, R,B 1988) Consequently, the desires someone has needs to be fulfilled so that they are not repressed and accommodated for in another form. Eating disorders can be understood in this way
People who work in the industry of Psychology explore the scientific study of behaviour and see many questions arise about human beings and how certain psychological thinking can explain irregular behaviourisms. There are many different perspectives when it comes to Psychology but some of the main ones are that of Psychodynamic Theory and Behaviourist Theory. Looking at a teenager who has been diagnosed with an eating disorder with these perspectives in mind, may shed a different light on why the disorder has been acquired. The psychodynamic perspective shows an insight to a behaviour suggesting that it is an unconscious force that determines certain characteristics. This analysis has been known to have developed from the theories of Sigmund Freud who ‘became convinced that many of the nervous systems displayed by patients could not be explained purely from a physiological point of view’ (Malim, T, 1992, p14) Behaviours such as phobias fears and irrational self defeating behaviours were therefore suggested to be related to instinctual drives, experiences from childhood and pre-conscious thoughts. The drives that a human being has, conscious on not, regulates their behaviourisms which is therefore seen to have an effect on their emotional and personality development. As well as this, these behaviours are affected by innate emotional forces or the body’s processes. ’the constraints played on the expression of these basic desires by conscious effort on the part of the individuals or as a result of social pressures, parental influences, lead to repression of the desires’ (Burns, R,B 1988) Consequently, the desires someone has needs to be fulfilled so that they are not repressed and accommodated for in another form. Eating disorders can be understood in this way
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