Question

Pat has had a lot of stress in his life. He was abused as a child, moved from house to house, and never had a stable relationship with the adults in his life. However, Pat never develops a mental illness. In the context of the diathesis-stress model, what can we say about Pat

Answer 1

Answer:

He did not develop a disorder because he lacked the genetic predisposition for it.

Explanation:

Pat has had a lot of stress in his life. He was abused as a child, moved from house to house, and never had a stable relationship with the adults in his life. However, Pat never develops a mental illness. In the context of the diathesis-stress model,  we can say Pat  did not develop a disorder because he lacked the genetic predisposition for it.diathesis-stress model is a theory that attempts to explain a disorder, or its trajectory which explain that mental and physical disorders develop from a genetic or biological predisposition for that illness combined with stressful conditions that play a precipitating or facilitating role