PSYCH 1100 Lecture 57: Lecture 57

• School: Ohio State University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH 1100
• Professor: Brian Siefke

Document Summary

Unfortunately, this medical model is usually an oversimplification: it is rarely useful to focus on a single cause that is internal to the person and that suggests a single cure o. Complexity of causation suggests that different individuals can experience a similar psychological disorder for different reasons. A person might fall into depression as a result of biological causes, psychological causes, environmental causes, or as a result of some combination of these factors. Multiple causes means there may not be single cures: diathesis stress model- suggests that a person may be predisposed for a psychological disorder that is unexpressed until triggered by stress o. Intervention-causation fallacy- fallacy involving the assumption that if treatment is effective it must address the cause of the problem. Anxiety disorder- the class of mental disorder in which anxiety is the predominant feature. People commonly experience more than one type of anxiety disorder at a given time, and there is significant comorbidity between anxiety and depression.