Magana da Jiki
Psychiatrist Dr. Adolf Meyer in the late 19th century stated that: "We cannot understand the individual presentation of mental illness, [and perpetuating factors] without knowing how that person functions in the environment." Psychosocial assessment stems from this idea. The relationship between mental and emotional wellbeing and the environment was first commonly applied by Freudian ego-psychologist Professor Erik Erikson in his description of the stages of psychosocial development in his book called Childhood and Society in 1950. Mary Richmond considered there to be a strict relationship between cause and effect, in a diagnostic process. In 1941 Gordon Hamilton renamed the existing (1917) concept of "social diagnosis" as "psychosocial study".
Nazarin ilimin halayyar dan adam ya ci gaba da bunkasa ta hanyar farfesa Florence Hollis a cikin 1964 tare da jaddada tsarin magani. Yana cikin tashin hankali tare da ilimin halayyar zamantakewa daban-daban, wanda ke ƙoƙarin bayyana tsarin zamantakewa a cikin mutum. Matsalolin da ke faruwa a cikin aikin mutum na zamantakewa ana iya kiransu "rashin aiki na zamantakewa" ko "matsalolin zamantakewa. " Wannan yana nufin rashin ci gaba ko rashin daidaituwa daban-daban na mutum na zamantakewar mutum, sau da yawa yana faruwa tare da wasu dysfunctions waɗanda zasu iya zama na jiki, motsin rai, ko fahimta a cikin yanayi. Yanzu akwai wani bangare na nazarin kasa da kasa, da kungiyoyi kamar su Transcultural Psychosocial Organization (Babban Kwamishinan Majalisar Dinkin Duniya na 'Yan Gudun Hijira), da kuma Association for Psychosocial Studies.
