PSY100H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Moral Treatment, Medical Model, Dsm-5
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Brief history of mental illness: reliance on supernatural explanations for mental disorders in colonial time. Integrating biological factors and social factors/psychological factors: model that emphasizes interaction between existing vulnerability and some sort of life stressor/environmental aspect. Abnormal behaviour: some misconceptions and controversies: medical model focuses biological causes. Implies that its not the fault of the person. Improvement over earlier models: still treats it as being a medicalized problem that is part of the person. Incurable: can lead to discrimination and stigma, heritable part of the person. Incredibly common: biggest barrier to getting treatment is fear of being labelled, changing the way people view them, being embarrassed/ashamed, substance abuse, addiction, psychotic disorders still receive stigma. Interfering with significant aspect of a person"s life: preventing them from keeping a job, causing distress. Interfering with personal relationships: so much of our understanding of abnormal behaviour is evolving.