Locate a conceptual or theoretical framework that could be used to explain a process related to a significant contemporary health care problem. Make sure the framework has been used in at least five...

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Social Constructionism Theory and Psychotherapy
Introduction
Health and health care is vast and a broad notion that encompasses various aspects of practice,
theory, policy, etc. Health refers to the state of physical and mental being. Health care is the task
of preventing the health hazards through health care policies, treatment of health hazard through
medical practice, nursing care, etc. Health care can encompass diagnosis of health concern,
medical treatment, and prevention of disease, physical and mental illness, injuries, and other
physical and mental issues in people (Alderson, 1998). Health care delivery refers to various
actions taken to provide primary health care, secondary health care, and tertiary health care, and
public health. Health care access differs country to country subject to the social conditions,
economic conditions and the government health policies. The purpose of health care
organizations is to provide services to meet the health care needs of people. World Health
Organization (WHO) defines basic health care system needs stable and adequate funding, skilled
and sufficiently paid health care professionals, effective information management and adequate
health care infrastructure to deliver required health care service. (WHO, 2015)
Theories and conceptual frameworks are the foundations of health care policies and health care
practice. While the actioners of health care practices may or may not be aware of these theories,
they influence and guide the health care practices and policies. The theories could be broad
social philosophies, hypotheses, frameworks or architecture of various working models and
methodologies, etc. These theories are foundations of health practices and the study of these
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theories are critical in understanding the health practices and guide the future growth. (Alderson,
1998)
The various aspects of social constructionism theory for health care will be explored in the
following section.
Social Constructionism - Theory
The basic foundation of Social constructionism theory for health care is that the state of human
life is the direct consequence of social and related interpersonal impacts. While there are factors
other than social factors like genetics that influence health in addition to social factors, social
constructionism focuses on impacts of social factors on public and private life. The unique
features of social constructionism theory are (i) ignoring assumptions related to cognitive inquiry
of mind and causality theories and (ii) focusing on the intricacy and societal connectedness of
individuals. Social constructionism theory identifies individuals as product of cultural, political
and societal evolution. Social constructionism identifies views are subjective, many and all could
be valid as well. The theory acknowledges and adds credibility to various perspectives and
views. The theory does not look at views as single truth of absolute fact but rather a subjective
aspect influenced by numerous factors. Views are subjective like people hypothesizing evidences
by their subjective experience, and how other people’s views impact our own views. Thus there
is no objective or absolute point of view. The experiencer’s response and another individual’s
view of the experience are subjective, personal and hence different....