PSY 2012 Lecture Notes - Lecture 27: Medical Model, American Psychiatric Association
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Mental illness that affects or is manifested in the brain and can affect thinking, behavior, and interactions with others. Three criteria distress, dysfunction, and deviance seem to govern decisions about abnormality. Biological approach: attributes psychological disorders to organic, internal causes, medical model, describes psychological disorders as medical diseases, mental illnesses of patients treated by doctors, psychological approach, emphasizes contributions of experiences, thoughts, emotions, and. Sociocultural approach personality: emphasizes social contexts in which person lives, stresses cultural influences on understanding and treatment of psychological disorders. Biopsychosocial approach: unique combinations of biological, psychological, and sociocultural factors. Understanding abnormal behavior in terms of psychological events: behavior is due to underlying issues, stems of childhood conflicts over opposing wishes regarding sex and aggression. If conflicts are not resolved they can be buried in the unconscious, which can bring about abnormal behavior in adulthood: this view was held most famously by freud.
