The Diathesis-Stress Model: Psychosocial Stressors, Trauma and Diabetes

The Stress-Diathesis Model of Suicidal Behaviour

A direct test of the diathesis–stress model for depression

The diathesis-stress theory for depression states that the effects of stress on the depression risk are dependent on the diathesis or vulnerability, implying multiplicative interactive effects on the liability scale. We used polygenic risk scores for major depressive disorder (MDD) calculated from the results of the most recent analysis from the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium as a direct measu...

Pharmacological stress diathesis syndromes.

Recent descriptions of discontinuation syndromes following treatment with antidepressants and antipsychotics, in some cases long lasting, challenge both public and scientific models of addiction and drug dependence. Antipsychotic and antidepressant drug dependencies point to a need to identify predisposing constitutional and personality factors in the patient, pharmacological risk factors in th...

Explaining the relationship between psychosocial stress and job performance in banking industry: An integrated model

Background and purpose: this study presents an integration of past research and theory that models the impact of the different levels of psychosocial stress and job performance. According to this model, the causal relationship between the different levels of psychosocial stress and job performance are considerable. Methods: The integrated model of this study was presented based on of past re...

Psychosocial Trauma, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and Torture

Over the past few years, within the teams that provide medical-psychological care to people suffering from the psychic sequels of torture in our country, there has been a permanent discussion surrounding certain categories that arise from psychiatric nosography as is the case of post traumatic stress disorder (PTSDA) – that have been put forward as descriptive or interpretative models of the wh...