... and persistently elevated, expansive or irritable mood, lasting at least a week', plus at least 3 additional symptoms - Emotional symptoms - abnormally euphoric elevated or irritable mood - Motivational symptoms - Increase in goal directed activity and increase in pleasurable activities that have a high risk of painful consequences - Cognitive symptoms - inflated self-esteem or grandiosity - Somatic symptoms - decreased need for sleep, psychomotor agitation, more talkative, pressured speech (b) Evaluate the use of one therapy or treatment for the dysfunctional behaviour (disorder) described in part (a) (14 marks) * Medical model views mental disorders as being caused largely, if not exclusively, by physical factors * As a result, the medical models favoured therapeutic approaches are physical, and collectively known as somatic therapy. * Although many somatic therapies have been abandoned, three are still used, one of which, chemotherapy, (the Use of drugs to treat mental disorders) has been the most influential of the currently ...

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