| Term | Definition |
| Psychosocial Theory | Erikson |
| Cognitive Development | Piaget |
| Culture Cognitive | Vygotsky |
| Moral Development | Kohlberg |
| Spiritual Development | Fowler |
| Psychoanalysis | Sigmund Freud |
| Defense Mechanisms | Anna Freud |
| looking glass self | Cooley |
| Generalized other/ symbolic interaction | mead |
| dramaturgical approach | goffman |
| general systems theory | brenner |
| Social work ecological perspective | germain and gitterman |
| behavioral- classical conditioning | pavlov |
| behavioral- therapy | Watson |
| Behavioral- operant conditioning | Skinner |
| Cognitive social learning theory-abc model | ellis |
| cognitive social learning theory- therapy/ | beck |
| transpersonal theory-founder | Maslow |
| transpersonal-spectrum model | wilbur |