PSYA02H3 Study Guide - Final Guide: Dsm-5, On Being, Personality Disorder
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** their intention was to shock the person out of the diseased state. A million plp were in psychiatric hospitals by the 1950s, for long term but in. The medical model sees psychological conditions through the same lens, as. It misses an appreciation for the whole system of factors that affects the person"s overall functioning. In recent decades the medical model has been in favour of the bio psychosocial model, which includes physiological processes within a more holistic view of the person as a set of multiple interacting systems. In some cultures their practices seem normal but when looking at it from a different cultures perspective it may not be defined as normal . There is no objectively definable line separating normal from abnormal; thus, determining whether a person has a disorder or not relies upon criteria for distinguishing normal from abnormal, and those criteria are essentially arbitrary.
