Reflection
Q. Select between The Medical Model, The Psychoanalytic Model, The Social Stress Model, and The Antipsychiatric Model. Write a Toulmin argument to explain which one of the models you found to be the most convincing.
For a true Toulmin Argument, include all four steps of the Toulmin Model of Argumentation as explained on the last page of the syllabus, including:
(i) your claim (here is where you identify the model you consider to be the most convincing),
(ii) your reasons (give at least three reasons to support your claim),
(iii) your evidence (give three evidences total – one evidence to illustrate or support each reason), and
(iv) your counterargument (here is where you will need to acknowledge that someone who disagrees with you may argue that one of the other models you didn’t pick is the most convincing.
Identify which model that is and give the reasons why your critic would make this claim and the evidence they would cite to support themselves.
Then rebut their argument – this is your counter-argument.
Make sure to provide specific references to, and provide specific examples from, the reading to support your answers, including specific page references.
