In human relations, workers deal with domestic violence, alcoholism, working with elderly people, human resources, child abuse, and et cetera while they are doing their work to help these individuals they will use forms of …show more content…
It provides workers with the best possible solution for the client’s current condition. Since there are many forms of psychology there are many ways of how it is a contributor to human relations. Social and behavioral psychologies provide the best theories for human service workers. Social psychology is the “branch of psychology that deals with social interactions, including their origins and their effects on the individual,” () Behavioral psychology “explains all mental and physical activity in terms of response by glands and muscles to external factors,” ().In the definition in itself shows how it is a contributor to human service work.
When human relation workers are interacting with their clients they are looking for characteristics of abuse in forms of child, domestic, or substance. They are able to do this with social and behavioral psychology. By using behavioral psychology they can tell if the client has been abusing different types of substances. Just by their physical appearance. With social psychology the worker will be able to determine whether they are having trouble with social life and other parts of their …show more content…
A worker will notice certain behaviors of the client that will help them determine what type of substance they are abusing. “Behavior is the result of stimulus – response (i.e. all behavior, no matter how complex, can be reduced to a simple stimulus – response association). Watson described the purpose of psychology as: “To predict, given the stimulus, what reaction will take place; or, given the reaction, state what the situation or stimulus is that has caused the reaction,” (McLeod, 2007). This will not give them the answer but the worker will know something is causing their behavior. Once they have that stimulus the worker will successfully help the client improve their situation.
These are one of the many ways of how human relation workers would integrate social and behavioral psychology into their work. When integrating psychology into human relation work they are able to help their clients on different levels than they would without it. It increases their work performance because they will see a change of how accepting their clients are of the theories that are presented to them. Workers will find themselves being able to connect better with clients. Not only will this motivate the workers but also the clients to be the best they can