Human Developing

1. Chaper 1: Briefly define the multidimensional approach to studying human behavior. Include all and define all of the dimensions found in this approach.

A multidimensional approach means that you see human behavior change depending on the person, the environment around the person and in a time aspect. Even though it is difficult at times to separate one dimension from another, and all are interdependent,these three dimensions of human behavior can not be understood fully separately, one has to look at all three combined, if one wants to use the approach in the daily social work.

The study employed a naturalistic approach and focused on several dimensions, rather than on isolated factors or variables. It pointed to a variety of factors that influenced the information behavior of the users involved.

The Personal Dimension; the psychological approach focuses primarily on the study of psychological states and processes in relation to information behavior.

For every story a client tells you, you have to think about the various dimensions of the people who are involved in that story, and that have affected the client. For many years where there used a psychosocial approach, like in Freud’s theory with ego, superego and id. Emotions, feelings, personality and cognition where important features. But currently social workers have taken on a different approach, a biopsychosocial approach. Human behavior is here seen as a result of interactions between biological, psychological and social systems. It means that emotions and feeling affects the body’s health and wellbeing, that additional factors that are’t psychological