Diathesis- This is the genetic predisposition which the Genain children expressed through their father. Mr. Genain had various fears and obsessions such as patrolling the house because he was worried of a break in, forms of paranoia. Since paranoia is a symptom of schizophrenia it is likely that Mr. Genain was schizophrenic and he passed this gene onto the children. Later on, his actions created stress that triggered the schizophrenia in his children.…
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Pathogen/disease Genetic flaw (chromosomal abnormality v. genetic mutation) Diathesis-stress model Explain and give an example of each pathway to mental illness…
* -this gene could indicate a vulnerability to depression after stress and the researchers speculated whether the gene could moderate individual responses to environment…
The approach suggesting that psychological disorders are illnesses that have underlying biological causes is called the:medical model…
Numerous scholars adopt several variants of the stress-vulnerability model of schizophrenia, and one of the most widely used is the biological model of psychopathology. The biological model uses the concept of ‘diathesis’ to explain vulnerability to pathologies. A ‘diathesis’, in particular, is usually viewed as a “biological predisposition to develop a disease or morbid condition” (Shean, 2004, 79). The biological model largely claims that risk for schizophrenia is a polygenetic imperfection that is outside the boundaries of healthy discrepancy. In addition, it is…
Biological and medical frameworks (sometimes referred to as the disease model) view psychological problems as resulting, in the main, from physical causes such as brain defects, hereditary factors or as the results of accidents or injury.…
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The biological approach emphasizes nature and ignores nurture; this approach therefore ignores the stress part of the diathesis stress model and so ignores psychological and environmental…
The biological model for childhood mental health is a very hard based scientific way of explaining the disorder. The model consists of, according to Clare (1980), scientific processes that study and observe symptoms, treatments and disease aetiology and believes mental disorders are a disease of the brain. Genetics play a…
Sadock, B. J., & Sadock, V. A. (2007). Kaplan and Sadock 's synopsis of psychiatry: Behavioral…
Situations deemed to be a stressful and continuing threat to provoke flight or fight reactions to impose chronic stress upon the body if a person does not get sufficient opportunities for recovery in a non-stressful environment. The research evidence shows that contributed stress weakens the resistance to disease and further disrupts the functioning of metabolic and hormonal systems (Braveman & Gottlieb, 2014). Physiological tensions derived from stress make people susceptible to diseases such as immune system and cardiovascular and adult onset…
McEwen, B. (2005). Stressed or stressed out: what is the difference? Journal of Psychiatry Neuroscience, 30(5), 315-318.…
Certain factors such as biological or genetics, personality, childhood experiences, social support, and the severity of trauma helps to determine how a person may be affected by an event that could potentially cause stress disorders.…
