twenty-year-old elton inherited a predisposition to depression and was brought up by a manic-depressive mother. until now, elton has avoided depression, but according to the diathesis-stress model, he may develop depression if he ____.'
If I have encounters very stressful events. The
diathesis-stress model is used by psychology to explain how stressful
events in life can trigger the genetic predisposition to suffer a
disorder. In this case, Elton could trigger a disorder if
he is faced with very stressful situations and does not have the tools
to handle them.
