According to National Alliance on Mental Illness (2016), 1 in every 5 adults experience a mental health condition. In order to explain the abnormalities and mental health conditions, psychologists use models, or paradigms (Comer, 2014, pg. 48). There are many paradigms and viewpoints to explain such behavior such as psychodynamic, sociocultural, biological, and humanistic. Specifically, the two models that are the most important to look at would the biological and humanistic perspectives. Biological theorists, over many years, have shown some of the strongest evidence against abnormal behavior, whereas the humanistic theorists have some of the weakest. Though both have some strengths and weakness, the biological and humanistic models of abnormality
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There are many medications, such as anti-depressants, like Prozac, or more serious drugs that help with disorders such as Schizophrenia, where, for example, patients are able to reduce the amount of hallucinations that are seen (Comer, 2014, pg. 52). Some other forms of treatment options would be ECT, which stands for electroconvulsive therapy. In this type of therapy, patients actually have their brains induced into a seizure and according to the clients, it reduces the amount of depression that they are feeling (Comer, 2014, p.52). With these therapies, the patient’s body is actually undergoing physical change and can result in a positive change regarding the abnormal …show more content…
Whether it is their personal beliefs and values in the humanistic viewpoint or the chemistry of their brain, these models pay attention to the patient. Both of these models disregard the patient’s surroundings or environment and instead focus on the person, which could possibly have a negative and a positive effect. Another similarity is the time when these two models were formed. Certain aspects of the biological model, such as the psychotropic medications and the neurosurgery, were conducted as early as the 1930s and the 1950s, whereas the human-existential model was formed somewhere in the middle in the 1940s (Comer, 2014, pg. 51,
There are many medications, such as anti-depressants, like Prozac, or more serious drugs that help with disorders such as Schizophrenia, where, for example, patients are able to reduce the amount of hallucinations that are seen (Comer, 2014, pg. 52). Some other forms of treatment options would be ECT, which stands for electroconvulsive therapy. In this type of therapy, patients actually have their brains induced into a seizure and according to the clients, it reduces the amount of depression that they are feeling (Comer, 2014, p.52). With these therapies, the patient’s body is actually undergoing physical change and can result in a positive change regarding the abnormal …show more content…
Whether it is their personal beliefs and values in the humanistic viewpoint or the chemistry of their brain, these models pay attention to the patient. Both of these models disregard the patient’s surroundings or environment and instead focus on the person, which could possibly have a negative and a positive effect. Another similarity is the time when these two models were formed. Certain aspects of the biological model, such as the psychotropic medications and the neurosurgery, were conducted as early as the 1930s and the 1950s, whereas the human-existential model was formed somewhere in the middle in the 1940s (Comer, 2014, pg. 51,