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What is the difference between the ways in which we treat and care for mentally ill patients in the present day and how they were treated 100 years ago? Why do these differences exist?

What is the sociocultural theoretical model? How does it relate to the development of the field of abnormal psychology?

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In about 250 words, this solution discusses how abnormal behavior has been defined throughout time. It also discusses the sociocultural theoretical model.

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What is the difference between the ways in which we treat and care for mentally ill patients in the present day and how they were treated 100 years ago? Why do these differences exist?

The practice, treatment, and definition of abnormal psychology has changed over the hundreds of years since psychology first became a way of explaining certain ...

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