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.

• Consumer Misbehavior

  • Researchers generally agree that shoplifters are driven by either economic or psychosocial motives.
  • Psychosocial motivations may include peer pressure, a desire for thrill or excitement, impulse, intoxication, or compulsion.

• 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.

• Bacterial Vaginosis

  • Factors that are known to disturb the balance are: antibiotics, pH imbalance (douching can alter vaginal pH), psychosocial stress, iron deficiency anemia in pregnant women and women with STD.

• Understanding Social Interaction

  • Methods include symbolic interactionism and ethnomethodology, as well as later academic sub-divisions and studies like psychosocial studies, conversational analysis and human-computer interaction.

• 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.

• The Science of Epidemiology

  • Epidemiologists use gathered data and a broad range of biomedical and psychosocial theories in an iterative way to generate or expand theory, to test hypotheses, and to make educated, informed assertions about which relationships are causal, and about exactly how they are causal.

• The Experience of Illness

  • Behavioral medicine is an interdisciplinary field of medicine concerned with the development and integration of psychosocial, behavioral, and biomedical knowledge relevant to health and illness.

• Cognitive Psychology

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