Asked by Skylar Donndelinger on May 10, 2024

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Explain the biopsychosocial approach to understanding the causes of abnormality. Provide an example of how this approach might be applied to the causes of depression.

Biopsychosocial Approach

A holistic perspective in health and illness that considers biological, psychological, and social factors.

Abnormality

A deviation from the norm or average, often used to describe behaviors or conditions that are atypical or considered pathologically significant.

  • Understand the biopsychosocial approach to abnormality, including how it can be applied to conditions such as depression.
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Laiba AhmadMay 11, 2024
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The biopsychosocial model encourages to explain phenomena such as depression by examining all relevant biological, psychological, and social factors that might be contributing to the development or maintenance of the disorder. As humans are affected by all these aspects, which body part is not functioning enough well to live a normal life without any depression. Here in depression the psychological aspect is the much important as the depression is the mainly the result of thoughts. With this how the social factor and society is effecting the depression is also considered. What people are saying about you what people are thinking about you and so on, there are so many things by which society affect and cause depression.
All these 3 factor are highly interrelated in applying for find out the cause of depression