Psychosocial

Quick meaning: Psychosocial is an adjective meaning (of behaviour) Having both psychological and social aspects.

Meaning

(of behaviour) Having both psychological and social aspects.

Example Sentences

It seems to me that most of those who adhere to an organicist position in psychiatry espouse a system of values of which they are unaware. They imply that they recognize as scientific only physics (and its branches), but instead of asserting this, they say that they object to psychosocial theories only because they are false.

Erikson's stages of psychosocial development, as articulated in the second half of the 20th century by Erik Erikson in collaboration with Joan Erikson,^([1]) is a comprehensive psychoanalytic theory that identifies a series of eight stages that a healthy developing individual should pass through from infancy to late adulthood.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include psychological, life, psychiatric, mental, sensitivity, emotional.

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