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Research dollars are scarce and it is always controversial how best to spend them. If you controlled those dollars, which model of the cause and treatment of psychological disorders would you fund the most? Which would get the fewest dollars? Explain the reasons for your decisions.

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The solution provides a discussion of the topic of research funding, including (from the view of the author), the best models and causes to fund and those that least deserve the funding.

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A really good resource for this question is the NIMH (National Institute of Mental Health) website. It has statistics for cost and prevalence in the US for various psychological diseases. A simple way to address this would be by prevalence. The most prevalent could get the most ...

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