The assertion that mental disorders have a physical cause.
What is the biological model?
True or False: Abnormal behavior has a strict set of guidelines that can be applied to cultures all over the world.
What is false?
The first model of psychopathology, which asserts that mental disorders are a result of possession or demons.
What is supernatural?
Informed by the biological model, pharmacotherapy uses this to treat chemical imbalances in the brain.
What is medication?
This term refers to the negative labels or stereotypes that lead to a loss of status for a group of people.
What is stigma?
The competing model to the biological model after the fall of the moral treatment movement, which focuses on the emotional contributors to mental disorders.
What is the psychological model?
This descriptor of abnormal behavior compares how a person's current behavior matches up to their past behavior.
What is dysfunction?
This approach to psychology calls for practitioners to move from addressing a patient's shortcomings to focusing on their strengths.
What is positive psychology?
Subscribers of this model might see mental disorders as a result of personal failing or sinful behavior, discouraging people from pursuing treatment.
What is the moral model?
Focuses on our interpretation of events, rather than the event itself.
What is the cognitive model?
This descriptor of abnormal behavior refers to the physical and/or psychological pain undergone by a patient.
What is distress?
This movement, influenced by the disease model, led to the dehumanizing treatment of mentally ill patients.
What is institutionalization?
This type of behavioral conditioning would use reinforcement or punishment to influence behavior.
What is operant conditioning?
This approach to psychology attempts to recognize the unique mental pressures faced by individuals of different races, ethnicities, and genders.
What is mulitcultural psychology?
Stresses the importance of situational and environmental factors as contributors to mental disorders.
What is the sociocultural model?
This descriptor of abnormal behavior accounts for the cultural beliefs or practices expected by the patient.
What is deviance?
This model of psychology builds on positive psychology, offering a more scientific approach to research.
What is humanistic psychology?
This biological approach to treatment includes lobotomies.
What is psychosurgery?
This form of stigma refers to the labels placed on someone associated with an individual experiencing a mental disorder, which may influence their pursuit of treatment. For example, a parent's reluctance to pursue their child's diagnosis for ADHD.
What is courtesy stigma?
A critique of this model might be that psychologists always look for something wrong with their patients.
What is the disease model?
This descriptor of abnormal behavior is not included in the DSM, but is often used by practitioners in assessing a patient.
What is dangerousness?
This reformer played a major role in the process of de-institutionalization during the 20th century.
Who is Dorothea Dix?
A practitioner subscribing to the psychological model may use this to uncover manifest and latent content.
What is dream analysis?
This theory proposes that we understand the world by categorizing our social world into oversimplified groups.
What is the social identity theory?