Approaches to Psychopathology
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- Created on: 29-10-13 16:48
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- Approaches to Psychopathology (abnormality)
- Biological Approach
- BIGB - Biochemistry, Infection, Genetics, Brain damage - can all explain abnormal behaviour
- How bodily systems can be used to explain causes and effects of stress
- abnormal behavior =abnormal biology
- Mental disorder - all mental disorders have physical causes
- Psychodynamic Approach
- To explain behaviour in terms of its dynamics - the forces that drive it
- Abnormal behaviour was seen as being caused by underlying psychological factors e.g an unresolved conflict between id and superego, or early childhood experiences
- Aims to treat abnormality by making the unconcious concious, through psychoanalytic therapy
- Behavioural Approach
- All behaviour is learned as we are born with a tabula rasa (blank slate)
- Abmormal behaviour can be explained by classical conditioning, operant conditioning or social learning theory
- Cognitive Approach
- It is the thinking process between an event and the consequence that makes the consequence
- 2 key features of abnormal behaviour: irrational thinking and cognitive triad & errors in logic
- Biological Approach
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