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IV. Seventeenth and Eighteenth centuries:

~ It is known as the Age of Reason & Enlightenment.
~ Recognised these disorders as medical state and applied scientific attitude
towards them to develop empathy, care towards such people and cure them.
~ Asylums and reform centres were created.
~ In the eighteenth century contributed to the Reform Movement and to increased
compassion for people who suffered from these disorders.
~ One aspect of the reform movement was the new inclination for
deinstitutionalisation which placed emphasis on providing community care for
recovered mentally ill individuals.

V. Interactional, or Bio-psycho-social Approach:

This perspective proposed that all three factors, i.e. biological, psychological and
social play important roles in influencing the expression and outcome of
psychological disorders.