175 .101 Lecture Notes - Schizophrenia, Histrionic Personality Disorder, Intellectual Disability
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The vulnerability/diathesis stress model proposes 3 fundamental causes for psychological disorders. Precipitating causes a trigger, causes by prevailing or dominant negative aspects of life. Maintaining causes responsible for the prevalence of illness once it has started. It is generally accepted that a low predisposition to disorder means that a higher amount of stress across various aspects of life is required to trigger a psychological disorder. In the same way, a high predisposition to disorder means that only a lower amount of stress is required to trigger the disorder. Observe distressing behaviour in an inappropriate contextual situation. Dysfunctional behaviour of which appears to have no meaning or logical understanding through which to explain it. Unusual behaviour cultural sense e. g. important to observe and be impartial to differences in cultural behaviour in observe how that behaviour is relative to the particular person"s background. Statistical sense appears inconsistent with the majority of behaviour statistically recorded.
