Department of Health and Social Care

Unit 1

Task/Challenge Brief

BTEC Level 3 Diploma in Health and Social Care

Year
Unit Title

13

Assessment
Title:

Understanding Psychological in Health and

Social Care

Deadline
Date:
Task No:
Outcomes to
be achieved:

Tuesday 3rd March 2015 - Tuesday 14th April 2015

Psychological Perspectives for Health and Social

Care

P1- D2
1 Understand psychological perspectives
2 Understand psychological approaches to health and social
care.

Assessment Criteria
P1
M1
D1

P2
M2
D2

P3
M3

Task Checker and Presentation Expectations

Mark off each task as you complete it

P4

P5

P6

TASK
P1
P2
P3
M1
M2
D1

Brief description of it

Done it?

PASS- Everyone must complete all the 6 pass tasks to achieve a grade E.
MERIT- For students targeted C and those who want to try the extra challenge!
DISTINCTION-For students targeted A and those who want to try the extra challenge

Presentation standards
All work must be hole punched into your folder wallet
All work must be in order of assignments.
Your mark sheet must be at the top of all your work, followed on the next page by
your own front cover.
You must sign the mark sheet where it says Student signature
All work must have the correct title number e.g. P1
There must be no plastic wallets anywhere in your work.
Work can be word processed or hand written.
All quotes are in bold with a reference.
All sources must be highlighted in the bibliography.
You must include a bibliography and appendixes at the very back.

Unit 8- Psychological Perspectives for Health and Social Care

You are a psychology
student who would like
to have a career as an
educational
psychologist.
On your workplace
experience you have
been asked to
investigate the need for
a new, larger therapy
and counselling centre
for the service users in
your locality.
You ultimately need to
evaluate two
psychological
approaches to health
and social care
provision and put
Learning Outcomes:

1 Understand psychological perspectives

2 Understand psychological approaches to health and social care.

In order to pass this unit you are expected to complete 2 assignments. Each
assignment is broken down into separate tasks that will meet all of the
grading criteria in order to pass the unit.
You have been prepared for your coursework tasks by learning about each
topic in class. You will find that your class work will help you to complete each
task and understand it better.

Assignment 1
TASK- Create a presentation that explains the approaches to psychological
perspectives in health and social care. Then take part in a discussion that covers how
the psychological perspectives are used in both health and social care practice.
P1- Explain the principal psychological perspectives
Principal psychological perspectives:
Behaviourist (role of reinforcement, conditioning, Pavlov, Skinner);
Social learning (effects of other individuals, groups, culture and society on behaviour of
individuals, self-fulfilling prophecy, role theory, Bandura);
Psychodynamic (importance of the unconscious mind, importance of early experiences, Freud,
Erikson);
Humanistic (Maslows hierarchy of needs, self-actualisation, self-concept, self-esteem, Rogers);
Cognitive/information processing (Piaget, Kelly);
Biological (maturational theory, importance of genetic influences on behaviour, influence of
nervous and endocrine systems on behaviour, Gesell)
TASK- Write a 1000 word essay that assess the different approaches to study. Include
their strengths and weaknesses giving an overall opinion of what approach takes
preference in health and social care settings.
M1- Assess different psychological approaches to study
Assignment 2
TASK- Create an A3 poster that explains how psychological perspectives can be applied
to both health and social care practice.
P2- explain different psychological approaches to health practice
P3 explain different psychological approaches to social care practice
Application of psychological perspectives to health and social care practice:
Behaviourist, eg understanding challenging behaviour, changing/shaping behaviour;
Social learning, eg promotion of anti-discriminatory behaviours and practices, use of positive
role models in health education campaigns;
Psychodynamic, eg understanding challenging behaviour, understanding and managing anxiety;
Humanistic, eg empathy, understanding, respecting other individuals, active listening, nonjudgemental approach;
Cognitive, eg supporting individuals with learning difficulties, supporting individuals with
emotional problems/depression/ post-traumatic stress disorder;
Biological, eg understanding developmental norms, understanding genetic predisposition to
certain illnesses or health-related behaviours, understanding the effects of shift work on
individuals.
TASK- Choose two of the approaches that you have covered and write a 1500 word
essay that makes comparisons and evaluates the impact that it has on the provision
within health and social care services.
M2 compare two psychological approaches to health and social care service provision.
D1 evaluate two psychological approaches to health and social care service provision.

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