An example of this isusing medication to treat anxiety disorders.
What Is the Medical Model?
They believe that if symptoms are connected, it can be characterized as a syndrome.
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Psychopathology says that disorders have an organic or physical cause.
The medical model approach suggests that mental conditions are related to the brain’s physical structure and functioning.
Symptoms of mental illness, such as hallucinations, can be categorized as syndromes resulting from disease.
The appearance of these symptoms allows a psychiatrist to make a diagnosis and prescribe treatment.
Thus, this treatment typically involves the use of prescription medications.
Medications prescribed for mental health disorders work by changing the brain’s chemistry.
In the correct dosage, medication can have a profoundly positive impact on mental health functioning.
Serotonin is a chemical that acts as a neurotransmitter.
Neurotransmitters modulate the signals between neurons and other cells.
Serotonin impacts a variety of mental health processes, one of which impacts mood.
Normally serotonin is released from a nerve cell into the synaptic gap between cells.
It is recognized by the next nerve cell, which then transmits a signal to the brain.
The serotonin is then recaptured by the first nerve cell.
An SSRI prevents some of the serotonin from being reabsorbed.
It stays in the synaptic gap to get to further stimulate the second nerve cell.
Medical model criticisms are just one example of the age-oldnature versus nurture debate.
Are mental health conditions a result of our biology or our environment?
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