PSYCH 9C Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Aspirin, Common Cold, Mania
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Mental disorder/psychopathology: what, how, why, severity is an issue with disorders. Modern models of mental disorder: medical model, biological, brain diseases with genetic basis and chemical dysfunction, treat with medication. We have a belief there is a biological factor so we fix it with the medical model. But we kept researching this and found that this is not always true. Study: kids from fresno, latino and first gen students: looked at disorders: mostly depression, anxiety, etc, add figure 6-2. Us born americans: children of immigrants: overall, the immigrants have a better mental health and living in the us mental health is much worse, environment has a big affect. The us born are in the same population as the total and so they are in the same environment. And the scores look just the same: clicker q: the slide about us-mexican americans provide powerful evidence for:
