The Interactionist Approach

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  • Interactionist Approach
    • Evaluation
      • Stressors may occur earlier in life and may only trigger the condition later in life
      • Urban life may not be more stressful as there are contradictory studies
      • There is Beta bias with culture in Tienari's study as he only looked at Finnish children
      • Bio may not just be genetics it may be due to birth complications or brain injury
      • Also in Tienari's study the scale is only done once so a family's situation may change
      • It can explain why the concordance rate for MZ twins is not 100%
    • Diathesis-Stress Model
      • High levels of urbanisation could be a stressor for somepeople
      • This takes into account both bio and enviro factors
      • By this model a combination of CBTp and drug therapy would be the best for the P
      • Stress - An environmental factor that could trigger the condition
      • A P can have a high or low vulnerability and a high or low stressor which combine
      • Diathesis - A predisposition to developing a condition
    • Tienari et al. (2004)
      • All were assessed after 12 and 21 years and assessed family functioning
      • Of the 303 adoptees, 14 developed sz and 11 of them were from the high risk group
      • He found 145 children from sz parents and compared them to a control group of 158 other adoptees
      • The adoptees from high risk and in low OPAS were less likely to develop sz
      • He studied the children of sz women from a Finnish psychiatric hospital
      • This shows that sz is partly genetic and people have stressors

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