ABNORMAL BEHAVIOR
INTRODUCTION TO PSYCHOLOGICAL DISORDERS
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the first model to view disorders as a sickness
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the only model to that treated psychological disorders
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a model that focues on how a patient was nurtured
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the model that encouraged inhumane treatments
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Detailed explanation-1: -The medical model’s school of thought is that mental disorders are believed to be the product of physiological factors. The medical model, which is more widely used by psychiatrists than psychologists, treats mental disorders as physical diseases whereby medication is often used in treatment.
Detailed explanation-2: -The medical model of disability is a model by which illness or disability is the result of a physical condition, is intrinsic to the individual (it is part of that individual’s own body), may reduce the individual’s quality of life, and causes clear disadvantages to the individual.
Detailed explanation-3: -The critique of the medical model originated in the psychiatry literature and has taken various forms since psychiatrist Thomas Szasz coined it in the mid-1950s.
Detailed explanation-4: -Medical model is the term coined by psychiatrist R. D. Laing in his The Politics of the Family and Other Essays (1971), for the “set of procedures in which all doctors are trained".
Detailed explanation-5: -This is the classification system used by the American Psychiatric Association. The first version (DSM 1) was published in 1952.