While direct causation cannot be proven for mental illness, certain factors contribute to the development of most major mental illnesses. Identify two common origins of mental illness and list at least two disorders that have been linked to the origins you named.
What will be an ideal response?
Ans: Any of the following: Genetics, epigenetics, learned behaviors, prenatal factors, differences in brain structures and functions.
Anxiety: Causes: genetics, learning, reinforcement.
Mood: Symptoms: Causes: No direct environmental causes, differences in brain structures and functioning, genetics, learned cognitive patterns.
Psychotic Disorders: Causes: prenatal factors, structural brain differences, disruption in neurotransmitters. Exacerbate for do NOT cause: stress, trauma, urbanization, immigration.
Eating Disorders: Causes: Social influence, genetics, disruption of serotonin pathway, altered right frontal lobe functioning, distorted body image.
Substance Abuse: Causes: Biopsychosocial—polygenetic, environmental access to substances, age of use—with higher rates in those who begin in adolescence.
Attention Deficit Disorders: Causes: genetics
Autistic Spectrum Disorder: Causes: polygenetic, epigenetics, prenatal factors.
Learning Objective: #5) Describe potential etiologies, or causes, of mental illness
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: Suernatual, somatogenic, and psychogenic explanations
Difficulty Level: Hard
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