Sunday, July 3, 2011

Compare and contrast Behavioral Sciences

Compare and contrast Behavioral Sciences and Social Sciences

About me:

Before I get down to my topic let me share with you that providing care to clients with psychological / psychiatric problems is challenging and rewarding at the same time. I consider myself lucky and honored to be a part of this process. Helping individuals in the times of their personal crisis, whether emotional, psychological or behavioral is what really feeds my passion in psychotherapy. Some of my clients are brought to the Outpatient clinic of bizarre behavior, agitation, psychosis, suicidal ideation, as well as emotional distress.

My main Topic:

The term behavioral sciences is often confused with the term social sciences. Even though these two broad areas are interrelated and study systematic processes of behavior, they differ on their level of scientific analysis of various dimensions of behavior.

Behavioral sciences such as Sociology, Anthropology, or Psychology in which the actions and reactions of human and animals are studied through observation and experimental methods like Individual-psych, Society-soc, and Culture-anthro. The key knowledge here is that Behavioral sciences abstract Empirical data to investigate the decision process and communication strategies within and between organisms in a social system like psychology, social neuro science (ie,decision sciences + communication sciences), etc.

Where as in contrast, social sciences provide a perceptive--hypothetical framework to study the process of a social system through impacts of social organization on structural adjustment of individual and of groups. This field of study includes sociology, economics, history, public health, political science, anthropology and counseling.

Take mental illness for example:

Anyone can have mental illness or emotional distress at any stage of life. Babies, school aged children, teenagers, adults and older adults can have a mental illness. Mental illness happens to all races every ethnic groups rich or poor.

Mental illness is an illness that interferes with how we experience and think about life; how we feel about ourselves and others and how we behave and adapt to change, stress and other life events. The illness can be caused by physical problems with nervous system or the brain, it can be caused by stress, an accident or major physical illness. Lead poisoning, poor eating habits and stressful living environments are example of things that can contribute to mental illness. Sometimes mental illness can also be genetic.

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Dr. Fenibo Braide
Posted on the web: July 3, 2011