schizophrenia : the interactionist approach ao1

Question 1

What is the interactionist approach

Answer 1

Acknowledges the biological psychological and social factors in the development of schizophrenia

Question 2

Explain diathesis stress model

Answer 2

Diathesis - vulnerability
Stress - in this context means a negative psychological expirence
The model states that a vulnerability and a stress trigger are needed to develop the condition
There may be one or more factors of vulnerability but the onset is triggered by stress

Question 3

Who did og diathesis stress model

Answer 3

Meehls model 1962

Question 4

Explain meehls 1962 diathesis stress model

Answer 4

Og model
Argues that vulnerability was purely genetic and a result of a schizogene giving schizotypic personality whereby they are particularly vunerable to stress
If a person doesn’t have the gene then no amount of stress will trigger the illness

Question 5

Modern understanding of diathesis

Answer 5

Now clear that there may be a genetic vulnerability for dev schiz but there isn’t
a single schizogene - its polygenic
vunerability can also be produced by psychological trauma
Trauma becomes the diathesis rather than the stressor

Question 6

who said schiz is polygenic

Answer 6

ripke 2014

Question 7

Diathesis means…

Answer 7

Vulnerability

Question 8

Read 2001 found

Answer 8

Proposed a model in which early trauma alters the development of the brain eg early child abuse. hypothalamic - pituitary adrenal system (HPA)
can become over active making a person much more vulnerable to stress later on