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Models of mental disorder-The behavioural model

The behavioural model has a scientific basis in Learning Theory. Symptoms are considered to be learned habits arising from the interaction between external events or stressors and an individual’s personality. Persistent, distressing symptoms are considered maladaptive responses rather than being markers for some underlying disease or illness. For the behaviour therapist the symptoms and their […]

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Models of mental disorder-The psychodynamic model

The psychodynamic model is more accurately described as a style of human interaction and understanding that draws on a broad philosophy, which includes clinical, biological and evolutionary theory as well as religion and the arts. Psychodynamic practice may conjure an image of the psychoanalyst listening to their patient’s stream of consciousness as the patient lies […]

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Models of mental disorder-The disease model

Before examining the disease model it is necessary to deal with the general meaning attributed to disease. Kendall has reviewed disease definitions in psychiatry, which range from the purely subjective (for example, personal suffering) to the purely objective (for example, the presence of an identifiable pathogen). This latter interpretation tends to predominate and is defined […]

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What is mental disorder and models of mental disorder

Experiencing ‘mental health’ or having a ‘mental illness’ may appear as two distinct, separate states of being. Such dualistic thought may also appear advantageous. The boundary it represents provides a point of exclusion beyond which we can place our fears of the unknown. ‘Madness’ becomes distinct from ‘sanity’, and for the majority, ‘madness’ is not […]

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Is Suicide a Mental Disorder

Is Suicide a Mental Disorder? Only about half of those who commit suicide have an identifi ed mental health problem, the most common being depression, substance-related disorders and schizophrenia. About 15 per cent of people with each disorder kill themselves (Meltzer 1998). Surprisingly, perhaps, suicide is more strongly associated with moderate than severe depression, as […]

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What is mental disorder? definition for mental disorder

Since the publication of the D.S.M.-III in 1980, the D.S.M. has included a definition of mental disorder and what is mental disorder? each of the mental disorders is conceptualized as a clinically significant behaviouralor psychological syndrome or pattern that occurs in an individual and that is typicallyassociated with either a painful symptom (distress) or impairment […]

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Models of mental disorder

In the present context a ‘model’ means a view, or system of beliefs, about what causes mental disorders. Within psychology in general there are several different schools of thought, such as the behaviourist school and the psychodynamic or Freudian school, which offer competing explanations for most forms of behaviour.2 Given the complexity of human behaviour, […]

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The relationship of suicide and mental disorder

The social control of psychiatric patients, both in hospital and community settings, is not limited to the question of violence to others. Mental health services are also concerned with reducing the incidence of self-harm and selfneglect. Rates of suicide among psychiatric patients are high for a number of reasons. Their labour market disadvantage places them […]

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Violence and mental disorder

While public prejudice, backed up at times by the views of politicians simply assumes that mental disorder predicts violence to others, the considered empirical position about this relationship has varied over time. Broadly three phases can be identified: 1 The negative relationship phase. Studies of the relationship between mental disorder and violence between 1925 and […]

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Suicide and mental disorder

The social control of psychiatric patients, both in hospital and community settings, is not limited to the question of violence to others. Mental health services are also concerned with reducing the incidence of self-harm and selfneglect. Rates of suicide among psychiatric patients are high for a number of reasons. Their labour market disadvantage places them […]

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