PSYC1023 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Mental Disorder, Medical Model, Etiology
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Medical model proposes thatit is useful to think ofabnormal behaviour as a disease. This includes mental illness, psychological disorders, and psychopathy/pathology is the manifestations ofdisease. This model helped victims be seen with more sympathy- less hatred. Medical diagnoses putshameful labels onpeople, labels such as. Their care became treatedmore humanely. psychotic, schizophrenic mentally ill carry difficultsocial stigmas. Etiology refers to the apparentcausation developmental history of an illness. A prognosis is a forecastaboutthe probable course ofan illness. 1 deviance:behaviour deviates fromwhatsociety deems: maladaptive:every day adaptive behaviour is impaired. acceptable. key in substance - use (drug) disorders. Cocaine for example interferes with social occupational functioning: personal distress:typically of those with depression or anxiety. Stereotypes ofpsychological disorders: psychological disorders are incurable" Majority ofpeople eventually improve - lead normal, productive lives. Modestassociation has been found between mental illnesse violence prone tendencies. This stereotype exists due to the media"s attention. 3)"people with psychological disorders behave in bizarre ways are very differentfrom normal people"
