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ALPD 2.3 Sociocultural etiology of MDD

The following lesson plan looks at explanations of Major Depressive Disorder in the sociocultural approach. The lesson focuses on two arguments: vulnerability models and Kirmayer's theory of explanatory models. Students should be able to discuss the strengths and limitations of each of the explanations. Remember that the research in this lesson may also be used on Paper 1. Before showing the following presentation, I...


Tags: sociocultural, abnormal, depression, etiology, aetiology

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