PSYCH101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 47: Biopsychosocial Model, Mental Disorder, Antisocial Personality Disorder

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH101
• Professor: Richard Ennis

Document Summary

Psychological disorder deviant, distressful, and dysfunctional patterns of thoughts, feelings, or behaviours standards for deviance vary by context and culture, and w/ time. Deviant behaviour alone does not lead to the label of a disorder usually causes the person distress, and eventual harmful dysfunction. Medical model concept that psychological disorders have physical causes that can be diagnosed, treated, and cured (often through treatment in a hospital) Gained credibility from recent discoveries that genetically influenced abnormalities in brain structure and biochemistry contribute to many disorders. The biopsychosocial approach all behaviour arises from interaction of nature and nurture links b/w specific disorders and cultures suggest that there are environmental factors that contribute to psychological disorders: some culture-specific disorders exist. However, some disorders are apparent worldwide, thus the biopsychosocial approach is most fitting: assesses a whole set of influences mind and body are inseparable.