In the past, a one-cause approach was more accepted and utilized to understand psychopathological behavior. However, today, it is more accepted that there are multiple causes that can explain the development of mental illness.
For this assignment, you will describe the early ways of thinking about psychological disorders through today’s current view and explain the multidimensional model and the major dimensions of mental illness. Please use the given template to answer the following questions:
Explain what early thoughts and beliefs existed about what caused mental illness.
Describe one of the psychological traditions and how it furthered the beliefs about what causes mental illness from that of the early beliefs by the Greeks and from religions. Select from: Freud’s theory of the unconscious, humanism, or behaviorism.
Explain the idea of a multidimensional approach and how it differs from a single-dimensional approach to understanding the major causes of mental illness.
Last, referring directly to the textbook, provide an overview of each of the major approaches of a multidimensional integrated model listed in the textbook. For each major approach, include its central tenant(s) as it relates to the explanation (or cause) of mental illness. The six dimensions noted in your readings that provide an explanation or cause for the development of mental illness are biological, psychodynamic, behavioral, cognitive, humanistic-existential, and sociocultural. For example, from the biological approach, an imbalance of neurochemicals is believed to influence (or cause) behavioral changes as well as heritability. The approaches that will need to be summarized include the biological, psychodynamic, behavioral, cognitive, human-existential, and sociocultural.
And watch the following TED Talk:
Markita Patricia Landry: A clinical test for mental illness? Landry
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