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The Diathesis-Stress Model

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The diathesis-stress model holds that disorders arise when an underlying vulnerability meets sufficient environmental stress.

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Two people with similar inherited risk differ in outcome after only one encounters sustained adversity.

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Neither element alone predicts well. The model's content is in the interaction, not the two lists.