PSYC100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Biopsychosocial Model, Flowchart, Mental Disorder

• School: University of Delaware
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC100
• Professor: Ly Agnes

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Psych disorders: causes of psycological disorders, traditional biomedical model. Passive recipients of whats going on in their biology. Focuses on treating disorders based on medicine or treatment for biological: biopsychosocial model. Have to look into multiple factors: biology, psychological factors, social conditions, diatbesis- stress model. Highlights under what conditions people will be more/less vulnerable. Flow chart in text book: diathesis comes from genetic predisposition, childhood trauma, or vulnerability to mental disorder. **these then determine if you are at higher or lower probability for a mental disorder: how do we decide what treatments are effective. Unsupported resesearch findings may not do anything or be dangerous: ocd & related disorders. A set of disorders that typically share an obsession with thought or idea and/or compulsion to repeatedly act in a certain way: chornic distress and axiety leads to increases of: If causes are complex, then treatments will be complex.