DEVELOPMENT OF SPECIFIC DISORDER: CONTRIBUTING SOCIOCULTURAL FACTORS

Question 1

CONTRIBUTING SOCIOCULTURAL FACTORS: ENVIRONMENTAL TRIGGERS

Answer 1

• Lead to onset of phobia
• 3 possible environmental paths

= Direct exposure: to the traumatic event (e.g. bitten by a dog)

= Witnessing: Witnessing other people experiencing a traumatic event (Seeing another person bitten by a dog)

= Reducing or hearing: About the traumatic event (hearing that someone was bitten by a dog)

Question 2

CONTRIBUTING SOCIOCULTURAL FACTORS: SOCIAL LEARNING THEORY - OBSERVATIONAL LEARNING/PARENTAL MODELLING

Answer 2

• Behaviour is learnt through imitating or modeling others
• Certain responses are learnt in a social context
• Specific phobias are learnt vicariously
• parent modelling can lead to transmission of threat

Question 3

CONTRIBUTING SOCIOCULTURAL FACTORS: STIGMA AROUND SEEKING TREATMENT
* Stigmas results in failure to SEEK help from fiends, family and medical professionals
* harmful effects of stigma
= lack of understanding by family or friends
= Bullying, physical violence
= Belief that you’ll never be able to succeed at certain challenges or you can’t improve your situation

Answer 3

• Stigma often results due to lack of understanding
• Stigma: social disapproval of an individual’s personal characteristics or beliefs
• Stigma: social disapproval of a type of behaviour
• Acceptance of the stigma = feelings of shame, hopelessness and distress. This can cause suffers to hide the symptoms of their illness