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Abnormality
Question: “Explanations of abnormality have become increasingly dominated by the medical model” Give a brief account of the medical model and consider its strengths and weaknesses.
The Medical Model
This definition of abnormality makes the assumption that mental illness had the same causes as physical illness. ... There are four main ways in which the medical model explains mental illnesses and they are infection, biochemistry, genetics and Neuroanatomy. ...
The good thing with this model is that it recognises some disorders are more biological in origin, and treatments offer help where other models have failed. ... Ethically the medical model is good as it removes all blame from the individual with the disorder, whereas other models may not.
Approximate Word count = 539
Approximate Pages = 2.2
(250 words per page double spaced)
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