PSYA02H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 14: Psychopathy, Psychogenic Amnesia, Dissociative Disorder
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Medical model conceptualization of psychological disorders as diseases that, like physical diseases, have biological causes, defined symptoms, and possible cures: diagnosis through symptoms to find underlying syndrome. Syndrome - a coherent cluster of symptoms usually due to a single cause. Manifested in symptoms that involve disturbances in behaviour. Symptoms associated with significant personal distress or impairment. Comorbity co-occurrence of two or more disorders in a single individual. Medical model all disorders should have a common prognosis typical course over time and susceptibility to treatment and cure. Diathesis-stress model a person may be predisposed for a psych disorder that remains unexpressed until triggered by stress. Intervention causation fallacy assumption that if a treatment is effective it must address the cause of the problem not a general rule: sleeping pills help you sleep but don"t settle your mind on what was. Mental disorders do not have a single internal cause they have a multitude of keeping you up factors.
