
Medical Model in Psychotherapy Versus the Family Therapy Approach
At the center of the medical model in psychology lies the idea that there is such a thing as a statistically normal psychological functioning of the individual. If the person experiences any distress, there is a deviation from that “normality,” usually caused by combination of biological, psychological and social factors: “The symptoms in our diagnostic criteria are part of the relatively limited repertoire of human emotional responses to internal and external stresses that