Psychopathology

• Rates in the UK (2009): Most common disorders

  Depression: 2.6%

  OCD: 1.3%

  Phobia: 2.6%
• Outline and evaluate one or more neural explanations of obsessive-compulsive disorder (8)

  • role of dopamine/serotonin
  • damage to neural mechanisms due to breakdown of immune functioning
  • structural deficits

  AO3:

  • success of drug treatments
  • Validity - doesn't work for everyone
  • lewis - genetic proof
• Ellis proposed an ABC model of depression. Outline and evaluate the ABC model of depression. Refer (8)

  • A, B, C
  • examples of irrational belief, musterbation

  AO3:

  • practical applications - REBT and ABCDE
  • only offers partial explanations - not every activating event causes depression + biological explanations are ignored
• Discuss the genetic explanation f box or obsessive-compulsive disorder (8)

  • OCD is inherited
  • Taylor (2013)
  • s
• Discuss the genetic explanation f box or obsessive-compulsive disorder (8)

  • OCD is inherited
  • Taylor (2013)
  • aetiological heterogeneity

  AO3:

  • Nestadt (2010)
  • Trauma cases instead of genetic
• Diathesis Stress Model - an interactionist approach to mental illnesses stating that genetic vulnerability and environmental stress combine to produce mental illness