By considering, psychological influences, psychologists are able to consider a person’s history and the role it may play in mental illnesses. The last level of the biopsychosocial approach is social-cultural influences. Social-cultural influences contain roles and expectations as well as how normality and disorder are defined in other cultures. For example, the expectations put on a person in one culture may be extremely high and thus play a role in the diagnosis of a mental illness. When taking into consideration social-cultural influences, it is important to note the differences involving mental illnesses throughout the globe. For example, when a person is diagnosed with a certain mental illness, they improve more in a third-world country than a person who has the same mental illness but lives in the United States. This may be explained by the strong support that is found in the villages of these third-world countries. Through the use of the biopsychosocial approach, psychologists are able to incorporate many different influences that will help them to more accurately and clearly decide if a person has a mental illness and also how to treat the mental
By considering, psychological influences, psychologists are able to consider a person’s history and the role it may play in mental illnesses. The last level of the biopsychosocial approach is social-cultural influences. Social-cultural influences contain roles and expectations as well as how normality and disorder are defined in other cultures. For example, the expectations put on a person in one culture may be extremely high and thus play a role in the diagnosis of a mental illness. When taking into consideration social-cultural influences, it is important to note the differences involving mental illnesses throughout the globe. For example, when a person is diagnosed with a certain mental illness, they improve more in a third-world country than a person who has the same mental illness but lives in the United States. This may be explained by the strong support that is found in the villages of these third-world countries. Through the use of the biopsychosocial approach, psychologists are able to incorporate many different influences that will help them to more accurately and clearly decide if a person has a mental illness and also how to treat the mental