PSY3190 Chapter Notes - Chapter 16c: Mental Disorder, The Vaccines, Methamphetamine
24 Sep 2018
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Reactions against the biological component of the bio/psycho/social model. If we attribute the individuals substance use disorder only tot heir genetic heritage then we must absolve them of responsibility for behavioural choices that they make: the individuals genetic heritage helps shape what a person finds rewarding. Reactions against the jellinek model: many researchers have come to question this model, methodology is flawed, he mailed out 1600 surveys to aa of these 1600 only 98 responded (response rate of. 6%: he assumed that aa members were same as non-members. Biological vulnerability studies: marc schuckit"s (1994) student on which the low level response theory is base is cited as evidence that there is a biological predisposition toward an alcohol use disorder, the results are suggestive. However it should be noted that only 91 men in the original group of 227 men had the abnormally low response to alcohol in the 1994 study.
