Biopsychosocial: Family and Cousin

The key concepts of sociology and psychology can influence social care values. People are affected by their childhood experiences, or they learn behaviour from their parents, peers and environment. This can assist a worker in understanding their behaviour. The key concepts of sociology and psychology can influence social care values, “modern psychoanalytic developments link with sociological ideas especially the idea that people are part of social systems and play a social role (1). For example in Maslows heirachy of needs once peoples psychological and safety needs are met, to reach their social needs they need to be treated with respect and not be judged. Other theories such as behaviourist can help to explain service users with addiction issues, they may have learned this from addicted parents. For many psychology theories they believe that people are affected by their childhood experiences or they learn behaviour from their parents, peers and environment. This can affect their role in society and help workers understand their behaviour.

At the start of the semester we learned that one’s environment influences how they behave. Through the variety of dimensions listed in the multidimensional framework, we learned that “people confront biophysical, psychological and social demands that require effective human responses (Ashford & LeCroy, 2010, p.9)”. Through Erikson’s psychosocial theory we learned that there are several stages during one’s development must be completed in order to move on to the other stage. That is that each individual must master the first stage and all its tasks in order to proceed to the next stage. Failure to master the stage and its tasks determines how they will succeed in the next stage. For example, Raul Salazar, a case study listed in the text, entails a story of a boy in the fourth grade, who due to his chaotic environment is unable to thrive in his environment. An anxiety disorder that could have either been passed down from his mother or created directly from his social environment, has affected his social functioning. Due to his anxious nature Raul, was labeled as having a learning disability.

Burger (2008), says that there are many theories of personality and psychologists try to explain it with their own approaches. Discussed here will be the psychoanalytic approach, the trait approach, the biological approach the humanistic approach, the behavioural/social learning approach and the cognitive approach. They were devised to search for specific patterns in behaviour and ways of thinking about these

This assignment will discuss the transitions faced by children and their parents including horizontal and vertical transitions. It will also explain planned and unplanned changes in children’s life and how children and their parents may influence by those changes as well as suggesting the most appropriate ways to respond to those changes using the

However, one of the most interesting concepts is how these mothers contribute to the ways in which their daughters develop their own identities and individual practices that enable them to mother themselves. More specifically, how they learn to doctor wounds, process emotions and thought, and care for themselves in all aspects of life. Therefore,

How does an infant develop into an adult? The answer is not as obvious as it seems. There are a variety of factors that contribute to human development. A person not only grows physically but also cognitively and socio-emotionally. This paper will explain two theories; one cognitive and one socio-emotional; about human development. The two theories will be described, compared, contrasted and individually evaluated based on the strong points and limitations.

Through reading this week's chapter I learned the development of a child can impact their whole life. I enjoyed learning the different levels of domains and how they impact every milestones each person goes through as they develop. The explanation of how a mother can impact their child's ability to give love and accept affection from others. It helps understand why some people second guess or unsure of themselves when in an adult relationship to where they settle even when mistreated by their significant other.

Based on what you have learned from studying the articles “Helping Babies Make Transitions,” “Starting Child Care,” and “Supportive Transitions for Infants and Toddlers,” explain how culture might influence a family's approach to transitions and how culture might influence an early childhood professional’s approach to transitions. Explain why it is important for a professional to be aware of how transitions are approached at home as well as in the infant/toddler program.

“The Psychodynamics of the Family”, taken from The Reproduction of Mothering: Psychoanalysis and the Sociology of Gender, published in 1978, remains one of Nancy Chodorow most influential works.

For my essay I decided to interview my mother. I know most of her story starting from my brothers birth. But i had never know much about her childhood. My mom was surprised when I started asking questions and I happy to learn more about my mother. I will focus this essay manly about when she was a child until teenager. While doing the interview I learned many thing and am now grateful for having the opportunity of writing this essay. I started by asking her when she was born and everything else sparked from their.

| A rich and detailed method to capture how and why people behave in certain ways and the impact of these processes on behaviour.

Psychology is not just philosophical speculation and reasoning over the years it has evolved and it is now also recognised as a science, to understand what psychology is all about it is necessary to know it’s origins and the theorist who brought it out of obscurity, Sigmund Freud. He developed the Psychodynamic or Psychoanalytical perspective to enable better understanding of human behaviour these concepts will be discussed further later in this study. After Freud opened the gateway other perspectives and approaches have been developed, now with five main areas of psychology - Cognitive, Behaviourist, Biopsychology and Humanist approaches. For a comparison with the Psychodynamic theory, Behaviourist Theory will be discussed.

The author details the personality structure of humanity that is described by identifying the functioning parts. These five parts include the conscious mind, the unconscious mind, the heart, the will and the emotions. The conscious mind controls the perception and evaluation of the events in the mind. The unconscious mind houses the basic assumptions. The heart represents direction. The will identifies a person’s behavior. Finally, the emotions of an individual detail the capacity for feelings.

With this family I firstly had to develop an understanding of the support the mother required for change to take place. It was necessary for P to understand what type of support she required for me to support her to independence.

Time progressed and in the winter of 2002, my husband and I moved to Texas. This was a difficult transition that we made, furthermore changing our lives forever. I was beginning to reflect on what my life was going to be, analyzing and looking towards the future. My husband and I began talking about forming a family. Throughout this time, I would reminisce about my mother being my primary care giver, I recalled the fact that she graduated college, yet decided to stay home with us. This placed me in the path of transformative learning. In transformative learning Mezirow (1991) mention’s that we have “broad sets of predispositions resulting from