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In Western medicine, the medical model guides diagnosis and treatment in all aspects of medicine and mental health. The purpose is to identify treatments for diagnoses based on evidence of specific symptoms assumed to suggest problems inherent within one or more organs of the human body. The medical model has driven research and theory about physical and mental health problems on the basis of causation, symptom relief, and cure and in some cases has been quite successful (e.g., tuberculosis, measles, etc.). As the fields of medicine and psychology have evolved, interest in the degree of impairment, regardless of the diagnosis, has increased.
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Goldstein, S., Naglieri, J. (2009). Defining the Evolving Concept of Impairment. In: Naglieri, J., Goldstein , S. (eds) Assessing Impairment. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-387-87542-2_1
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