How a Focus on Learning Mechanisms Can Change Our Understanding of Mental Disorders
How a Focus on Learning Mechanisms Can Change Our Understanding of Mental Disorders
The last chapter summarizes the previous findings and suggests that focusing on learning mechanisms can help to appreciate the malleability and diversity of human behavior. It is suggested that dimensional and computational approaches can foster a new understanding of mental disorders and create classifications based on basic dimensions of human learning and decision making. This chapter emphasizes that a focus on learning mechanisms should help to reduce the stigma of mental disorders, as it emphasized human creativity and resilience when dealing with stressful situations.
Keywords: Human behaviour, Dimensional approaches, Computational approaches, Mental disorders, Classification, Learning mechanisms, Stigma, creativity
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