HLTHAGE 1CC3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Wheeze, Biopsychosocial Model, Mental Disorder
23 Jan 2018
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Most prevalent in treatment and among people. Mental illness: a biological disease, like any other, causing malfunctions in the brain, genetic abnormality and such disease of the brain. A disease has a speci c cause (i. e. tb, hepatitis) - medical model treats mental illness as such as these. Has symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment - individually focused. Speci c symptoms for speci c diseases - speci c cure/treatment fo the illness. Limits who ought to take care of mental illness (ie. doctor, physician) Treatments include psychopatharmaceuticals, ect - shock treatment, etc. The people used for studies are those diagnosed with schizophrenia - once diagnosed then treated but scans don"t show the underlying cause of disease or any treatments (i. e. psychopharmaceuticals) Also focuses on individual, but takes into consideration mental/psychic processes, believing that mental disorder arises from internal mental processes that re ect the interaction of the individual with their environment.
