Psychodynamic Approaches To Human Behavior
Behavioural This is one of the very early approaches to understanding human behaviour; this was developed internally by Thorndike, Watson and Pavlov in the 19th century (Nicolson, Bayne 1990). Behaviourists are concerned with the questions relating to the conditions and events surrounding the behaviour, looking at the gaps in learnt behaviour, environment aspects, watching how they react. (Nicolson, Bayne 1990) This theory can be applied to John in the case study; he displays aggressive behaviour towards his wife Mary and son Anthony. From a behaviourist point of view, the behaviour would be looked at as followed; they would be concerned with what actually happened before John hits his son or wife, and what events took place in response.
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(Sheedy 2012) As a social worker applying this method you have to be trustworthy regardless of how much you are pushed away by service user, as they will expect you to leave as they have been left in the past if you take their behaviour personally. Helping build their egos, they may be lacking in strength due to events that have happened in their early age of development. You must ensure they do not occur identity separation, they can come dependent on you and once to be you as they see their perceived cells as not being good enough, we must not allow this to happen as you are on powering them. They may use transferring skills, John may state that it is your fault as a social worker coming into the home that he displays the unwanted behaviour, you must ensure you do not take these comments to heart. Counter transference may be applied by Anthony due to his confusion of being an adolescent but being allowed to be an adult at the same time, he must be made aware that his aggressive behaviour towards his mother is not acceptable on any level. When challenging these unwanted behaviours defence mechanisms will undoubtedly take place as John, Mary and Anthony will not want to take any acceptance for their own behaviour and contributing to the dysfunctions within the family. You may find there is a resistance for change within the changing model. (Sheedy
(Sheedy 2012) As a social worker applying this method you have to be trustworthy regardless of how much you are pushed away by service user, as they will expect you to leave as they have been left in the past if you take their behaviour personally. Helping build their egos, they may be lacking in strength due to events that have happened in their early age of development. You must ensure they do not occur identity separation, they can come dependent on you and once to be you as they see their perceived cells as not being good enough, we must not allow this to happen as you are on powering them. They may use transferring skills, John may state that it is your fault as a social worker coming into the home that he displays the unwanted behaviour, you must ensure you do not take these comments to heart. Counter transference may be applied by Anthony due to his confusion of being an adolescent but being allowed to be an adult at the same time, he must be made aware that his aggressive behaviour towards his mother is not acceptable on any level. When challenging these unwanted behaviours defence mechanisms will undoubtedly take place as John, Mary and Anthony will not want to take any acceptance for their own behaviour and contributing to the dysfunctions within the family. You may find there is a resistance for change within the changing model. (Sheedy