Describe the Biopsychosocial Model - Briefly Contrasting It with the Diathesis-Stress

Essay

Describe the biopsychosocial model - briefly contrasting it with the diathesis-stress model. More importantly, what are the factors in the biopsychosocial model that interact to determine human behaviour? What does it mean to say that they are dynamically and reciprocally interacting? Illustrate this with an example of a process that begins in infancy but where disorder is not apparent until adolescence or later. Use the example of Hailey at the beginning of the chapter if you wish.