Social work and psychology are very different disciplines; even though psychology is mainly academic and social work is chiefly applied they have a very cordial mutual reliance on each other. What we can say is, psychology is the science that studies the behaviour of human beings and formulates theories that can be of use in understanding an individual, whereas social work is the practical application of those related theories for bettering the welfare of people and development of society in general. Projections, a phenomenon that is a part of psychology is the main aspect that majorly decides how an individual reacts and behaves in a certain situation, this phenomena helps a social worker analyse and modulate the human behaviour. Coming to …show more content…
So Erikson concluded that if a person successfully completed a stage he would possess the virtue related to it, but if he failed then he would develop feelings of shame, guilt, self doubt, inferiority, dissatisfaction and so …show more content…
The levels were physiological needs (food, water, sleep, etc); safety (security, body, employment, etc); love and belonging (friendships, family); esteem (confidence, self esteem, respect of others, etc); self actualisation (morality, problem solving, acceptance of facts). He stated for achieving of self actualisation the ascending of all the lower levels was a must, if and when a person is able to successfully ascend the levels he will become a well rounded and a self actualised