HPRO 3325 Lecture Notes - Natural Disaster, Gotlib, Social Environment

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Risk factors: economic disadvantage, physical/ sexual abuse, social environment, peers, family, absent parents, gender, family conflict/ dysfunctional child rearing, traumatic life events, parental mental illness, organic/ genetic factors. Accumulative by nature: the more you are exposed to risk-factors will put one at a higher risk over time for mental illness. A trajectory is the stable component of a direction toward a life destination and is characterized by a given probability of occurrence (i. e. a tendency to persistence in life-course patterns. wheaton & gotlib (1997) Turning point: a turning point is a change in direction in the life course, with respect to a previously established trajectory, that has the long-term impact of altering the probability of life destinations . Odds of developing any psychiatric disorder based on traumatic stressors. Most important traumas: losses of important relationships, parental death, parental divorce, victimization experiences. Early experience of trauma is most likely to increase odds of mental illness.

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