Interactionist approach evaluation

Question 1

Simply evaluate the Interactionist approach

Answer 1

✔ Evidence to support it
✘The origional model is too oversimplified
✘We don’t know how exactly diatheses and stress work

Question 2

Explain ‘✔ Evidence to support it’

Answer 2

Tierni et al found that a more stressfull homeleft lead to a higher likelihood of developing schizophrenia after studying 19,000 Finnish mothers with schizophrenia and non-schizophrenic mothers
-Shows that stress from the poor parenting style seemed to trigger the disorder

Question 3

Explain ‘✘The origional model is too oversimplified’

Answer 3

Evidence has clearly shown that multiple genes cause vulnerability - research has shown that stress can come in many forms

Question 4

Explain ‘✘We don’t know how exactly diatheses and stress work’

Answer 4

There is no clear understanding of which factors are more important or how they combine when talking about vulnerability and stressful triggers