Schizophrenia Non Bio Expanation

Question 1

Social causation hypothesis

Answer 1

Social causation view is the view that the human world is the main indicator for a persons schizophrenia

Question 2

Social advertisity

Answer 2

Growing up in an environment less favourable than other environments can make a child more vulnerable to mental health disorders in the future, for e.g families that undergo poverty or a poor standard of living may undergo more stress than other families

Additionally, people from lower socioeconomic backgrouns may be unable to get proper treatment for their mental health disorders

Question 3

Urbanicity

Answer 3

City life can be more stressful than rural life + long term exposure to such stress can trigger an episode of schizophrenia such as noise, light, pollution, criminality, anonymity.

Increased population- life is more competitive, this can increase the experience of “ chronic social defeat” which a stressor that can elicit schizophrenic symptoms.

Question 4

Social isolation

Answer 4

Robery Faris- people with schizophrenia withdraw because rhey feel social contaxt with others can be highly stressful, such self imposed isolation can cut the individual off from feedback about what behaviours or thoughts are inappropriate