PS101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 14: Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Panic Disorder, Phobia
Document Summary
Medical model proposes that it is useful to think of abnormal behaviour as a disease. Became the dominant way of thinking about abnormal behaviour. The rise of the medical model brought improvements in the treatment of those who exhibited abnormal behaviour. Some critics now are troubled because medical diagnoses of abnormal behaviour pin potentially derogatory labels on people. Being labelled carries a social stigma that can be difficult to shake. Research has increasingly demonstrated that many psychological disorders are at least partly attributable to genetic and biological factors, making them appear more similar to physical illnesses. Etiology refers to the apparent causation and developmental history of an illness. Prognosis is a forecast about the probable course of an illness. People are often viewed as disordered when only one criterion is met. Diagnoses of psychological disorders involve value judgments about what represents normal or abnormal behaviour.
