psychosocial

Examples of psychosocial in the following topics:

• Developmental Psychology

  • Developmental psychologists study the physical, cognitive, and psychosocial development of humans from conception through adulthood.
  • They view development as a lifelong process that can be studied scientifically across three developmental domains—physical, cognitive, and psychosocial development.
  • Psychosocial development involves emotions, personality, and social relationships.
  • Eric Erikson modified Freud’s ideas and suggested a theory of psychosocial development: he said that our social interactions and successful completion of social tasks shape our sense of self.

• Erikson's Stages of Psychosocial Development

  • Erikson's psychosocial stages of development focus on the resolution of different crises to become a successful, complete person.
  • Erik Erikson (1902–1994) was a stage theorist who took Freud’s controversial theory of psychosexual development and modified it as a psychosocial theory.
  • Erikson's stages of psychosocial development are based on (and expand upon) Freud's psychosexual theory.
  • According to psychosocial theory, we experience eight stages of development over our lifespan, from infancy through late adulthood.
  • Erikson developed his eight stages of psychosocial development based on Freud's psychosexual theory.

• Etiology of Schizophrenia

  • While genetics, environment, neurobiology, and psychosocial stress contribute to schizophrenia, the exact cause of the disease is unknown.
  • While the exact environmental trigger(s) that influence the development of schizophrenia are unknown, scientists suspect that prenatal exposure to the flu or famine, obstetric complications, central-nervous-system infections in early childhood, and psychosocial stress in childhood and early adulthood may be linked to the disease.
  • Psychosocial environmental stressors can range from parental divorce to suffering from childhood abuse.

• Neo-Freudian Psychoanalytic Theory of Personality

  • Erik Erikson is influential for having proposed the psychosocial theory of development, which suggests that an individual’s personality develops throughout the lifespan based on a series of social relationships—a departure from Freud’s more biology-oriented view.
  • In his psychosocial theory, Erikson emphasized the social relationships that are important at each stage of personality development, in contrast to Freud’s emphasis on sex.

• Cognitive Psychology

  • Instead of approaching development from a psychoanalytic or psychosocial perspective, Piaget focused on children’s cognitive growth.

• Introducing Health Psychology

  • Public health psychology investigates potential causal links between psychosocial factors and health at the population level.

• The Challenges of Adulthood

  • These correspond to two of the last three stages in his theory of psychosocial development.

• Defining Psychology

  • Research psychologists employ scientific methods to explore relationships between various psychosocial variables and examine a wide range of topics related to mental processes and behavior.

• Introduction to Schizophrenia and Psychosis

  • A number of psychosocial interventions may be useful in the treatment of schizophrenia, including family therapy, skills training, and psychosocial interventions for substance abuse.

• Classifying Abnormal Behavior: The DSM

  • It has replaced Axis IV with significant psychosocial and contextual features and dropped Axis V (the GAF) entirely.