D1 Evaluate the roles of different psychological perspective in health and social care?

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D1 Evaluate the roles of different psychological perspective in health and social care?

The psychological perspective I believe is the most effective is biological perspective because the biological perspective is the study of biological bases to behaviour. This perspective can be effective in explaining aggression, a social question. Biological perspective is effective in explaining this perspective as this approach is very scientific making it objective and the approach has contributed to psychologists' understanding of a wide range of wonders such as aggression by investigating the limbic system of the brain. There is increasing awareness due to modern day brain scanning that the biological approach plays an important role in the behaviour of individuals in areas such as aggression. The limbic system contains many brain structures such as the hypothalamus. It also looks at the nature vs. nurture debate that discusses why people are born with certain traits or if they are learned from their surroundings. Also, they look into family studies of fraternal and identical twins on behaviour. They also study that various structures in the brain can affect our behaviour, and also, damage to shares of the brain can severely affect our behaviour.

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In contrast, biological perspective is better than psychodynamic perspective because biological perspective has the important strength of usually being studied using strict scientific approach. This tends to make the results of this kind of research more reliable than the results obtained using some of other psychological approaches. Practical interventions based on the biological perspective have proven reliable, as for example with many drugs that affect the brain, and certain types of neurological surgical interventions. Whereas, the psychodynamic perspective provided a long term treatment to identified the cause of disorder such as psychic battle and defence mechanisms. Also, the perspective over emphasises ...

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This is a good start to an essay but it feels unfinished. The writer has discussed various approaches in a very general way and compared them to the Biological approach. The essay could be enhanced through more research and more detail. More explanation of the approaches would expand the work and show greater understanding. ***