INTRODUCTION TO PSYCHOLOGY FOR SOCIAL WORKER

Unit-1
What is Psychology?

Psychology is the scientific study of behaviour and mental processes.

The primary goals of Psychology are to:

Describes Behaviour – What is the nature of behaviour?

Understand and explain behaviour - why does it occur?
Predict behaviour– can we forecast when and under what circumstances it will occur?
Control behaviour - what factors influence this behaviour?

DEFNITION OF SOCIAL WORKER:

Social work is defined as an art, a science, and a profession. That helps the people to
solve personal, group, and community problem and attain satisfying .personal, group, and
community relationship through social work practices.
-BY IFSW (International Federation for Social Work)

PRINCIPLES OF SOCIAL WORK:

 Problems exits every were

 Trained social worker
 The social work is an professional
 Social worker needs communication skill as an important component.
 Social work is possible to some extent only with community cooperation.

PSYCHOLOGY:
It comes from Greek word psuche (Psycho), meaning mind or soul, psychology which is most
commonly defined as study of the mind.

Psychology is a science or a study about behaviour.

William Games (1870) – principles of psychology and William evadnt (1879).

Definition Psychology is the study of the mind and behaviour. "The understanding of
behaviour" is the activity of psychologists and also Psychology for Social Workers
Basic concepts of Psychology - Explanations Mind -The part or faculty of a
person by which one feels, perceives, thinks, remembers, desires, and imagines. Brain
- The portion of the central nervous system that is located within the skull. It functions
as a primary receiver, organizer, and distributor of information for the body.
 Conscious - The normal state of being awake and able to understand what is
happening around
Unconscious mind is a reservoir of feelings, thoughts, urges, and memories that
outside of our conscious awareness. ... According to Freud, the unconscious continues
to influence our behaviour and experience, even though we are unaware of these
underlying influences.

VARIETIES OF PSYCHOLOGIST:
Several types of psychologists exist. These include:
 Cognitive psychologists: study the ways humans perceive and understand the world
around them.
 Physiological psychologists: study the role of brain functions in behaviour.
 Developmental psychologists: study how individuals grow and change throughout
their lives.
 Social psychologists:  study how people influence and are influenced by others
  School psychologists: test and evaluate students, analyze learning problems, and
counsel teachers and parents.
 Industrial/Organizational psychologists: work on a wide variety of issues in work.
  Forensic psychologists:  work on behavioural issues in the legal, judicial and
correctional systems.
 Health psychologists: focus on ways to improve health by altering behaviour.
 Most psychologists are involved in the areas of clinical and counselling
Psychology: primary focus of clinical psychologists is the diagnosis and treatment of
mental and behavioural disorders. There is some overlap between clinical and
counseling psychology but the latter typically involves working with people who have
less severe social, emotional and vocational problems.

Cognitive ---------------Affective---------------------------Behaviour
Think -----------------------feel--------------------------------Act
FIELDS/BRANCHES/AREAS OF PSYCHOLOGY:
1. Pure  2. Applied
 
1. PURE PSYCHOLOGY:
 
 Concepts
 Theories and
 Laws

2. APPLIDE PSYCHOLOGY:

 Industrial Psychology
 Educational Psychology
 Correctional/legal/criminal Psychology
 Military/army psychology
 Clinical Psychology

1. INDUSTRIAL PSYCHOLOGY/ENGINEERING:

 Retaining
 Employee
 Employer
 Customer
 Advertisement
 Incentives/Rewards/Appreciations
 Morale
 Motivation
 Involvement
 Job satisfaction
 Accident
 Alcoholism/Idleness

2. EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY:

Branch of psychology in which the knowledge is applied in the field of education.

 
3. MILITATY PSYCHOLOGY:
 
 To control rumors.
 Making the military personnel to become psychological.
 Emotional control to soldier when they kill the enemy in the field (making them to not
feel guilty for death of enemy).
 Bring courage to the militant during dangerous situation which help in building
morale.
 To make soldier to come out from stress, pain and make them more courage.
 The psychologist has a good role in the military.
 The military psychologist work was:
 Recruiting
 Training
 Motivating
 Counseling
 
 During the non-war time there will be psychological changes in soldiers so to
overcome it there is needed a military psychologist due to no connection with house
this will lead to stress this will can only over taken by the military psychologist.
 Prevent Psycatric illness, Depression, Ansaity, etc.
 
4. CORRECTIONAL/LEGAL/CRIMINAL PSYCHOLOGICAL:
 
 This branch deals with convict (Person who was suspected as the thefter, killer, briber
or law breaker )
 The person who has the high IQ are more involving in the criminal and cyber-crimes.
 The criminal psychologist do following things:
 Profaction
 Parole
 Lie- detection
 Behaviour is the main reason for the crimes.
 
METHODES IN PSYCHOLOGY:

INTROSPECTION:
 Look inside
 Look inward
 Self-perception
 Self-analysis
 Inner observation
 Self-observation

OBSERVATION:
 Participative 
 Non participative