Models Of Psychological Disorders

Question 1

Focusses on the conditions that initiate and underlie abnormal behaviour
Many of the terms used in psychology and psychiatry are borrowed from medicine
This Model assumes that abnormal behaviour can be diagnosed treated and cured

Answer 1

Medical-biological model

Question 2

• rooted in Freud‘s theory of personality

- Assumes that psychological disorders arise from anxiety produced by unresolved conflicts outside a persons awareness

Answer 2

Psychodynamic model

Question 3

Focusses on individual uniqueness and decision making

-Assumes that maladjustments occur when a person’s needs are not met

Answer 3

Humanistic model

Question 4

Focusses on observable behaviour

-Abnormal behaviour is learned from selective reinforcement and punishment

Answer 4

Behavioural model

Question 5

Focuses on thoughts

-Humans engage in both prosocial and maladjusted behaviour because of their thoughts

Answer 5

Cognitive model

Question 6

Focus on family community and society

-Assumes that maladjusted behaviours occur within and because of family, community and society

Answer 6

Sociocultural model

Question 7

Humans evolved in a specific environment

-assumes that maladjustments maybe expressions of behaviour that would once be considered normal in evolutionary history

Answer 7

Evolutionary model