Psychology / Unit 12 Psych 1324 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Diathesis-Stress Model
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The idea
The diathesis-stress model holds that disorders arise when an underlying vulnerability meets sufficient environmental stress.
In practice
Two people with similar inherited risk differ in outcome after only one encounters sustained adversity.
Where people slip
Neither element alone predicts well. The model's content is in the interaction, not the two lists.
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