Two Psychological Approaches to Health and Social Care Provision

(m2) I will be comparing two psychological approaches to health and social care provision. I will be further comparing two different psychological approaches to health and social care provision.

I will be discussing how the behaviourist approach is compared to health and social care. The behaviourist approach/perspective involves two components of the conditioning theory classical conditioning, which entitles that behaviour is learnt as a result of association. Common alcohol consumption would consequently be performed, because individuals would associate positive aspects of their life with alcohol, which means that they would continue the consumption. These associations could be made with laughter and enjoyment, regardless of the fact that this may not be directly as a conclusion on the alcohol intake; perhaps the atmosphere in which alcohol is consumed.  

A supplementary association may be having greater confidence when intoxicated and for adolescents having a sense of maturity and operant conditioning, which explains behaviour in terms of reinforcement. For instance, when an adolescent has an alcoholic beverage, and consequently is more socially accepted by his/her peer group, then this may positively reinforce the adolescent to consume alcohol on a differing circumstance. Moreover, a positive reinforce could perchance be having good time when consuming alcohol, and so desiring to endure this on extra instances. Despite this, these specific rein forcers also have the capability to be detrimental, as when an individual consumes alcohol, they have a tendency to neglect other anxieties, and afterwards are reinforced to consume alcohol to neglect problems.

A behaviourist Psychologist can start with the individual with alcoholism by measuring the types and degrees of difficulties the individual has experienced. The results of the assessment can compromise initial guidance to the alcoholic concerning the treatment they require and aid the motivation of the drinker to receive this crucial treatment, aversion therapy for instance. Heavy drinking is a behaviour which can be conquered using this technique. In this case an aversive response to the alcohol is required, rather than a congenial one. Alcohol is often paired with an emetic drug (which prompts vomiting); this is with the purpose of the service user combining the alcohol with this. Alcohol rehabilitation aversion therapy is sufficient as it targets indications for those memories with an aversive response. Environmental stimuli- such as the senses and the location usually introduce imminent pleasures to the brain when in conjunction to alcohol consumption. These stimuli are used with a medically supervised stimulus to fashion an aversion, or an unpleasant motor response such as nausea and as a result it becomes a conditioned response.

The behaviourist approach is used in a social care setting to do comparable things as the health care services. The chief purpose is to change and shape the individual’s behaviour to understand that there is a way in overpowering the difficult behaviour. Within a social care setting for example a school for behavioural difficulties the operant conditioning of the behaviourist approach can be used. When the child behaves they can be resulted with a reward. This will have a chain reaction and the child will then follow the classical conditioning and will start to associate positive behaviour with reward, therefore they will be conditioned to behaving in a certain manner.