Which model believes that normal and …

Psychological models maintain that psychological and interpersonal factors have a significant role to play in abnormal behaviour. These factors include:

• Maternal deprivation (separation from the mother, or lack of warmth and stimulation during early year of life).

• Faulty parent-child relationships (rejection, overprotection, over-permissiveness, faulty discipline, etc.

• Maladaptive family structures (inadequate or disturbed family) arid severe stress.

The psychological models include the psychodynamic, behavioural, cognitive, and humanistic-existential models.

(a) The Psychodynamic Model: This model is the oldest and most famous of the modem psychological-models.

Abnormal behaviour is viewed as the result of intrapsychic conflicts.

• This model was first formulated by Freud.

• Abnormal behaviour is a symbolic expression of unconscious mental conflicts that can be generally traced to early childhood or infancy.