Diathesis Stress Model

You would just use Diathesis-Stress as a little evaluation point. It's particularly good for questions like "To what extent does the ......... approach explain ............"

For example, after talking about the concordance rates, and how they aren't 100%, you could talk about the diathesis-stress model, explaining while there may be a genetic disposition, it may require a psychological factor to trigger it, i.e. stress/trauma.

You would just use Diathesis-Stress as a little evaluation point. It's particularly good for questions like "To what extent does the ......... approach explain ............"

For example, after talking about the concordance rates, and how they aren't 100%, you could talk about the diathesis-stress model, explaining while there may be a genetic disposition, it may require a psychological factor to trigger it, i.e. stress/trauma.

ahh thanks! i thought we might have needed to know it in more detail but obviously not.

also, i have lots of notes on the prognosis, different types of schizophrenia and the effect of urbanicity. are these relevant? obviously the last one will be if we're asked about the effects of the environment.. although, surely we'll get asked either psychological or biological explanations?

Yeah.. The essay will be either biological or psychological, or something like "Discuss to what extend psychological fully explains schizophrenia" or the other way round.

I dont think prognosis, or urbanicity will be relevant. Types of schizophrenia might possibly be relevant if they ask for clinical characteristics in a 5 or 10 mark question.