Integrative Perspective Case Study

Why is an integrative perspective, one that sees value in many models, including those listed above, the wise path to take when attempting to explain, treat, and prevent mental illness?

When explaining and treating mental illness and abnormal behavior, all six of the aforementioned models have shortcomings. For example, in the biological model of abnormality, biological treatments often produce unsavory side effects like severe shaking and extreme restlessness in antipsychotics. This model is also rather limiting since it says that only biological factors cause behavior; no other outside factors (like social factors, for instance).
In the psychodynamic model, the theories of human behavior are all abstract ideas and therefore very difficult

This is similar to the biological model’s problem of not considering factors other than biological factors. It is also along the same lines of the psychodynamic model in which it relies on ideas/theories that are not very physical.
The humanistic-existential model’s main issue is the lack of empirical research. Similarly to the humanistic-existential model, the sociocultural model has difficulty establishing a cause from the research available. It is also difficult to predict abnormality in society using the theories of the sociocultural model. For example, if discriminated and underprivileged individuals of color tend to suffer from depression and anxiety, shouldn’t this apply to all individuals fitting these characteristics?
Thoughts, feelings, and body processes all interact with each other to give us human behavior. Many forces from the inside (like psychological and biological) and outside (sociocultural) can affect the individual collectively. The integrative approach is broader and more universally applicable. By looking through the integrative approach lens, it isn’t just biological or just social as the source of our behavior; it is both combined to explain behavior. This can be accurately compared to the nature versus nurture debate (which should no longer be a debate since it is a combination of both). This broad, integrative perspective of abnormal behavior also makes it easier to prevent mental illness across different