Huey, Dewey, and Louie are identical triplets. Huey suffers from clinical depression, Dewey suffers from agoraphobia, and Louie is mentally healthy. Explain how the diathesis-stress model applies to the triplets and their different states of mental health.

Although the triplets have the same genetic inheritance, which can be characterized as a vulnerable hereditary predisposition, their life experiences have not been similar, so their mental health states are different.

Explanation:

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The stress diathesis model is a psychological theory used to explain the appearance of mental disorders in people.

In this model, the genetic predisposition of the person (diathesis), interacts with environmental factors or traumatic experiences that can cause stress, thereby generating psychological disorders.

To mitigate this situation, protection factors are currently studied and applied in the model, in order to reduce the incidence of environmental factors that causing stress.

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Explanation:

The  analysis of diathesis-stress  in relation to this scenerio is that, a diathesis is highly  sensitive and vulnerable   to changes in the environment. And stress on the other hand is  a feeling of tension  which   makes an individual to be uncomfortable. Therefore the combination of the two factor affect the state of mind of an individual (leading to emotional disorders) and changes in physical attributes( leading to changes in  behavioural attitudes).

Explanation:

In this present scenario, the identical triplets share the same genetic composition and are therefore  susceptible to the  same genetic vulnerability. However because of variation in their exposure to different live events,  they may not share the same experiences.

Thus the  different behavioural and emotional  changes they showed demonstrated the effect of  exposure to  different  environmental factors,which they reacted to differently.