The term Medical Model is used to refer to abnormal behavior. Abnormal behavior includes mental illness, psychological disorder, and psychopathology disease. The medical model purpose is that it is useful to think of abnormal behavior as a disease. By treating abnormal behavior as if it were to be a disease, the individual(s) who are diagnosed with the illness can receive the treatment that need.
With the rise of the medical model, the individual(s) who fall victim to the illness are viewed with more sympathy and less hatred and fear. Even though it took time for the treatment, it eventually gave way to the scientific investigation of the causes and the cures of psychological disorders. The statement that says, newer research over the last …show more content…
The societal views of mental illness in this country 40 years ago were merely based on superstition. The people who believed that they were possessed by demons, where “treated” with chants, rituals, exorcisms, etc. If they were seen as threatening, they were chained, in dungeons, tortured, or killed. In my opinion, mental illness does carry a negative social stigma. When you think of someone with a mental illness, you picture him or her more so crazy. They are the type of people that will kill a cat, dog, or any animal just for the fun of …show more content…
If they are happy with their behavior, but the behavior isn’t acceptable within the social norm, then saying it is a mental illness can be much. If the individual who is diagnosed with a mental illness doesn’t really have one, it can be very hard for that person to function back into society. Society tries to make those with mental illness seem like they can’t do anything on their own. They make it seem like they will need help with everything they do for the rest of their lives. Even if it was a mistake, once someone is “diagnose” with a mental illness, it can never just go away even by mistake. There is normal and there is abnormal. It is difficult to separate the two because everyone occasionally experiences each. Everyone acts deviant once in a while. People are only judged to have psychological disorders only when their behavior becomes extremely deviant, maladaptive, or distressing (Ch. 14 pg.
With the rise of the medical model, the individual(s) who fall victim to the illness are viewed with more sympathy and less hatred and fear. Even though it took time for the treatment, it eventually gave way to the scientific investigation of the causes and the cures of psychological disorders. The statement that says, newer research over the last …show more content…
The societal views of mental illness in this country 40 years ago were merely based on superstition. The people who believed that they were possessed by demons, where “treated” with chants, rituals, exorcisms, etc. If they were seen as threatening, they were chained, in dungeons, tortured, or killed. In my opinion, mental illness does carry a negative social stigma. When you think of someone with a mental illness, you picture him or her more so crazy. They are the type of people that will kill a cat, dog, or any animal just for the fun of …show more content…
If they are happy with their behavior, but the behavior isn’t acceptable within the social norm, then saying it is a mental illness can be much. If the individual who is diagnosed with a mental illness doesn’t really have one, it can be very hard for that person to function back into society. Society tries to make those with mental illness seem like they can’t do anything on their own. They make it seem like they will need help with everything they do for the rest of their lives. Even if it was a mistake, once someone is “diagnose” with a mental illness, it can never just go away even by mistake. There is normal and there is abnormal. It is difficult to separate the two because everyone occasionally experiences each. Everyone acts deviant once in a while. People are only judged to have psychological disorders only when their behavior becomes extremely deviant, maladaptive, or distressing (Ch. 14 pg.