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All right, so this question is asking, why is the perspective one uses in explaining a psychological disorder important? so in psychology perspectives refers to how we approach a certain disorder in attempting to understand or explain the sort of mechanisms that may explain why this disorder has come to be.
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So in the book we have three listed, supernatural, biological.
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Although they immediately dive into the diathicist distress bottle, that really refers to the psychosocial perspective.
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Just to draw out some definition, supernatural or a supernatural perspective really looks at spirituality and some sort of higher being that's kind of expressed through a person's mental state.
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Biological really gets at, well, the hard science behind it.
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They're essentially a biological phenomenon, whether it be genes, chemistry, or chemical imbalances, or neurological impairments.
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Psychosocial, however, takes into one's experiences, their behaviors, which really get at the psycho aspect...