Psychology integrates into a wide range of medical careers. From nurses to ambulance technicians. Psychology is the ground structure of communication in the patient-doctor relationship. Doctors use psychology to inform and comfort their patients. An example of one of these doctors is geneticists. Geneticists use different psychological theories when working with their patients and in the field of genetics: the theory of stress, the theory of coping, developmental psychology, and the seven…
Review Paper : The Stages of Economic Growth After the World War II, the idea of ‘development’ became major concern of many countries and international organizations. Many researchers try to figure out how development works and how this process could help modernization process in the world. Walt Whitman Rostow in his article ‘The Stages of Economic Growth’ also try to figure out how economic develops. In his article, Rostow (1959) argues that economic growth in modern world is not a continuum…
Modernizationists believe that if society stays in the traditional way they there can be no needed changes, scientific innovations, and breakthroughs such as capital or technology. The results of such will be absolutely no development. I think that under this theory the solution towards development has 5 distinct stages which are comparable to that of an airplane taking off. These stages are the path that underdeveloped countries must take in order to reach…
The Career Values Scale Report (CVS) is a Psychometrics assessment tool that looks at how an individuals’ personal values influence their career path. Career values can be defined as facets that individuals find important in relation to their work life. An individual may complete it before entering the work force or if they are looking to switch careers. Completing this assessment allows an individual to gauge what they are interested in as well as what they are not interested in. After…
Kiger, 2011). In this case, I evaluated myself using the inventory tool and discovered the competency of my skills. However, I found out the weaknesses and strengths in career planning, personal journey disciplines, and professional accountability. Significantly, the self-evaluation process assists in creating professional development. Furthermore, nurses’ managers should make an optimal contribution concerning coaching, motivating and guiding the professional team to deliver quality health…
I will be self-reflecting my physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual development using the medicine wheel as described by Mussell (2005). Mussell defines the medicine wheel as, “a symbol used to represent the dynamic system of mind, body, emotions and spirit, and the needs related to each of these aspects that must be met for the development of human potential.” (Mussell, 2005, p.115). Self-reflection of the four aspects of the medicine wheel (Mussell, 2005) will help me to gain a better…
INTRODUCTION Personal Development is a work-focused module is founded on professional recognition of the need for programmes that support individual personal and professional development and that encourage and promote skills to enable contribution to one’s own personal development. The course aims to promote increased understanding of the factors facilitating the development of self and the learning of others with a view to influencing work-based practice. Through this course we were able to…
life. Actually, psychologists have continued stating that the developmental changes take place from birth to death. This is primarily because people are increasingly exposed to different environments that affect their lives and contribute to development and growth. This implies that growth occurs on the basis of a person’s developmental place in life. There are various developmental places in life including infancy, early childhood, adolescence, adulthood, and old age. These stages consist…
Assignment 1: Thinking about Lifespan Development Section One: Summary of key developmental ideas The attachment theory (Drewery and Claiborne, 2014) is a crucial theory in the field of human development that continues to influence the way we view families as a society and is applicable across most cultures. The theory is derived from psychiatrist, John Bowlby (1951) and describes the concept as, “the naturally occurring bond between infants and their parents, particularly the mother” (Drewery…
influences that could possibly shape the development of a human. According to psychologynoteshq.com it states, “American psychologist, Urie Bronfenbrenner, formulated the Ecological systems theory to explain how the inherent qualities of a child and his environment interact to influence how he will grow and develop.” Bronfenbrenner’s theory has five different influences. Influences The outside influence is chronosystem, which is the changes in development over time. The books definition of…