Stress diathesis model

Question 1

What did the stress-diathesis model state?

Answer 1

There are biological, psychological and societal factors in the development of disorders/stress.

It sees biological factors like genetic vulnerability combines with a physiological factors such as stress.

Both a vulnerability to a disorder and a stress trigger are necessary in order to develop the condition.

a person may have a genetic pre-disposition to a mental illness but the disorder may never develop because they don’t stress.