HLTHAGE 1CC3 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Bipolar Disorder, Mental Disorder, Social Forces
9 Feb 2018
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Week 1 & 2: intro & de ning mental health ! searched as tranquil settings, this is only one conception of mental health and how to: things that we take into mental illness category now, bipolar disorder, depression, good mental illness! achieve it! What does a mental disorder do: mental disorders are characterized by their effect of thought, behaviour and mood. Some disorders only affect one of those elements, others are felt in multiple areas. The medical model: dominates thinking around mental illness, most common for lay people, model focuses on mental illness being a biological disease, causing malfunctions in the brain , individually focused - symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment! Mat savelli: disagreements between medical model supporters , treatments include psycho pharmaceuticals, ect , the people who"s brains have been scanned for this study are subjects of schizophrenia, ! The psychological model: focuses on individual, but takes into consideration mental/psychic processes, believing that.
