PSYCH257 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Rodent, Psychopathology, Epigenome

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH257
• Professor: Pamela Seeds

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Many factors can go into play to describe mary"s depression (social, psychological, social) and they feed into each other in a systemic way. For example, when her father hits her as a child, she might think that she thinks that something is wrong with her. When she thinks something is wrong with her, she might become more inhibited and when she becomes more inhibited, she may spend more weekends alone and taking long naps. Father hit her when she was a child (social) Thinks there is something wrong with her (psychological) Perceives self as a burden to others (psychological) Spends most weekends alone, taking long naps (social) (behavioural) Only person in class who has no job lined up (social) The biopsychosocial model is a model of psychological health in which biological (eg: genes, brain), Psychological( behaviour, emotions and cognitions) and social (relationships, interpersonal environments) Challenging beliefs about self as weird, a burden by perhaps using a thought record.