Psychological Approaches In Health And Social Care Essay

This assignment will cover an explanation on how the following 6 situations would use different psychological approaches. The explanation will consist of the examples of the behaviour/feelings displayed by the person, then how would the identified psychologist explain that behaviour, and finally how would I or someone who work in a health and social care environment would deal/challenge that behaviour.
Behaviourist
The situation from this psychological perspective is ‘An indivual who has a severe phobia of germs and dirt.’ Having a phobia with something can be extremely hard to overcome especially if it’s a long term phobia, that if you encountered with it, you display certain behaviour that may not be seen as normal to others. The person who may have a severe phobia of germs and dirt could display a behaviour such as excessive hand washing, or excessive use of a hand sanitizer, also if they are in a room where they encounter dirt they may feel anxious, panicky and they would immediately think about the germs that would be on that dirt which can make the person feel hesitant to touch anything and they may just want to leave the room.
The behaviourist perspective would say that whoever this individual is who have a phobia of germs and dirt could have been classical conditioned due to …show more content…
However there could have been reason to why this person is an anti-social, the social learning theory would say that role models could be the influence to why a person behaves the way they are, so for the person who does have anti-social behaviour may have been brought up with a negative role model beside them either a family or a