Psychosocial Analysis

There are various assessment tools obtainable for assessing the needs for patients or clients. The addiction professional uses assessment instruments as one component of the counseling/treatment process taking into account the client’s personal and cultural background. The assessment process promotes the well-being of individual clients or groups (NAADAC, 2015). This process helps determine how much and what kind of treatment your client needs. It is important to be aware of different types of assessments as well as being familiar with how they work in each situation. As we assess George we will use two different assessment tools to give as an example of how to assesss the needs of this client.

The movie Psycho was filmed in 1960 by Alfred Hitchcock. The movie focuses on a woman named Marion Crane. It starts when she steal 40,000 dollars from her boss to run away with her boyfriend. It’s late and she decides to check into a motel, the Bates Motel. At the motel, she encounters a middle-aged man named Norman Bates. He becomes morbidly obsessed with her. But he then kills her…dressed as his dead mom. There is a show that acts as a prequel to Hitchcock’s masterpiece; Bates Motel. It is focused on Norman Bates and his mother, Norma Bates whereas the movie is focused on Marion Craine.

The training and knowledge of viewing a certain situation from every possible standpoint, while incorporating other factors such as cultural differences and certain responses to behaviors, was just a small portion of what I had learned while pursuing my undergraduate degree. It was at this point in my career, where I chose to focus on leading and empowering others in a more professional setting, in order to alleviate possible problems within the

Learing new activity can improve own knowledge, skills and understanding, learning activities can improve an individual’s knowledge, skills and understanding by providing us with new ideas , such as something we may have never encountered before. Learning activities also gives the severs users new areas of learning, such as topics or courses that they haven’t encountered before or something that they haven’t previously covered, and courses on things that can make the job easier , or even legally required courses that produce great new areas of learning that allows us to perform our job role , such as manual handling or medication training .it also enables us to apply theories or ideas into practice and discovered if they are successful in doing what we intend them to , which in turn is great in developing ourselves confidence .confidence is often the key in making strides with a difficult individual or even with self improvement and with being confidence it allows us to learn at an easier pace , which also develops our skills into more tangible tools that we understand .reflecting on a situation can improve knowledge , skills and understanding reflecting on a situation can improve on individual greatly by providing personal insight on a subject , which leads to better understanding of a topic , we can reflect on how well we performed and I what way our performance could be improved. By reflecting we can examine how effective our practice is by thinking about people’s reactions to us. About how there may have been other outcomes, and how to reach those outcomes, eliminating the bad paths and highlighting the more positives conclusions in hope of reaching them the next time we are face with the same

“The studies discussed so far have shown that existential beliefs require a certain level of cognitive development to be fully expressed”. (Berring, 2006) This came from the article and is a very good statement on what the article stood for.

Psycho by Alfred Hitchcock is a horror movie. This movie was released in 1960, and it is 109 minutes long. The plotline of the movie Psycho is that a young employee, Marion Crane run away after stealing $40,000 from her office and get murdered in a motel where she was spending a night due to the strong storm. The motel was owned by a young man named Norman Bates, and he was living with his invalid mother in an old house next to the motel. It is not revealed that Norman's mother is invalid until Lila(Marion's sister) and Sam(Marion's boyfriend) decides to go to the motel in search of Marion. Lila and Sam initially hired a private detective to search Marion, but unfortunately, the detective also got killed in the motel when he found out that

Social workers play a key role when it comes to assisting individuals overcome adversities. They are trained to look at the whole picture and not just the presenting symptoms. Social workers have the skills to obtain accurate psychosocial assessments, in order to get a better understanding of why, how, what, and when events have impacted or changed an individual’s way of living. It does not matter what setting the social worker finds themselves in, they are continuously finding answers to the questions. It is no different when dealing with an individual that suffers from a mental illness.

The target population for this study were forty White people from Colorado State University. The use of only white people was because they wanted to reflect the ethnic diversity of Colorado State University. In the year 2013-2014, Colorado State University undergraduates had 22,565 students and 74.36% considered them as white and 2.09% considered them as Black. In the second experiment, fifty-nine participants from Colorado State University participated in this experiment that had course credit in Introductory Psychology. This was a non-probability sample because this does not give all the individuals in the population equal chances of being selected. They only used one college and this college was not as diverse.

In my primary years, I was raised in an area of Southwest Houston called Alief. Going to school in Alief truly exposed me to diverse cultures as a child. I can remember going to school with children that were from various backgrounds that included Indonesia, Sweden, and Nigeria, just to name a few. At a young age, I developed a respect and appreciate people of all walks of life. I had no idea that such an experience was helping prepare me for my later years in life where I would have to learn to adapt, collaborate, and learn from many individuals.

Compared to others, my childhood was made up of tough love and discipline. I was born in the United States, but I was fortunate enough to be sent to West Africa Ghana, to learn about the culture and to meet my family members. I left the U.S at the age of two, and moving to Ghana was a different experience because I was without my mother and father. The best part of moving to Ghana was that I had my older brother watching over me. We were seen as outcasts for the first few weeks, but we blended in after a short amount of time.

An infant goes through many changes that he or she does or happens when transitioning to middle childhood. On a physical level an infant starts to move on it's own, they start to feed themselves, and their body grows. “Changes in muscle composition lead to increases in strength that, enable 1-year-olds to walk, run, jump, climb, and so on”(88). On a cognitive level they start to realize depth perception. In an experiment they used a “visual cliff”, a mat that makes the floor look like there’s a cliff, where the mother tries to make the baby go onto the “cliff”. “But because the infant can perceive depth, he fears that he will fall if he comes toward her, so he stays put, looking concerned”(98). Because the infant can perceive depth this is a change or

In the textbook, the author defines the meaning of personality, meaning “psychological qualities that contribute to an individual’s enduring and distinctive patterns of feeling, thinking and behaving.”(Cervone & Pervin, 2013) Then the texts break down from the definition the words enduring, distinctive, “contribute to” and the phrase “feeling, thinking, behaving”. Enduring refers to the personality characteristics that are consistent across time and across different situations of a person’s life. The word “distinctive” in the definition refers to how personality psychology addresses features that differentiate people from one another. The phrase “contribute to” refers to how psychologists search for the factors that influence and explain an

Career identity is defined as the sense of self derived from one's development of an occupational career and is an important component of one's overall identity (Stringer, 2011). Once they set down and talked, they realized that they were unhappy with their jobs and the time that they were spending apart. They decided to quit their job and open up their own business were that allowed them to spend time together and enjoy what they do and have that intimacy back before they were married. Intimacy in a relationship supports independent judgments by each partners. It also permits the disclosure of a personal feelings, as well as the sharing and developing of ideas and plans (Newman & Newman,

The process of being self-aware is not always easy, but is a worthwhile and magnanimous achievement. As a social worker, Self-awareness is an essential ingredient in preparing oneself to encounter new challenges while learning to understand one’s own strengths, weaknesses, thoughts and beliefs. It was difficult for me to work on a project with others not knowing if I could control my emotions, judgmental attitudes and negative past experiences with group assignments. In past groups my expectations weren’t met. I was burdened with the task of completing other group members’ assignments while they avoided the work or vicariously participated. Acknowledging how past experiences influenced my beliefs, feelings and thoughts towards group work has made a difference.

In my preschool years, I was quiet as a mouse. I was a very shy individual who was eager to learn and make new friends. Before preschool, my family moved around a lot until I was 1 years old. My family moved from the country to an urban neighborhood in Camden, South Carolina; it is quiet not what my family is used to. I still resided in this neighborhood and it has changed tremendously. In the urban neighborhood, I lived with my mother, my two older sisters, and my father but my father was always traveling with his job. Most of the time, my father would send for my sisters, my mother, and me because he missed us so much. Life in the house was a little crowd until my sisters and I become older.