PS101 Lecture Notes - Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Anxiety Disorder, Major Depressive Disorder

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The medical model applied to abnormal behaviour: By: yen hoang: the medical model proposed that it is useful to think of abnormal behavior as a disease. This point of view is the basis for many of the terms used to refer to abnormal behavior, including mental illness, psychological disorder and psychopathology (pathology refers to manifestations of disease) It gradually became the dominant way of thinking about abnormal behavior during the 18th and 19th centuries and its influence remains strong today. It clearly represented progress over earlier models of abnormal behavior. Their disorders were treated with chants, rituals, exorcisms and such. If people"s behavior was seen as threatening, they were candidates for chains, dungeons, torture and death. The rise of the medical model brought improvements in the treatment of those who exhibited abnormal behavior. As victims of an illness, they were viewed with more sympathy and less hatred and fear.

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