The psychosocial perspective remains important in explaining disorders despite advances in understanding:

1. Progress in one explanatory perspective does not retire the others. 2. Despite advances in understanding the biological basis of psychological disorders, the psychosocial perspective is still very important. 3. That is the reasoning behind the diathesis-stress model. 4. A biological vulnerability alone often fails to predict who develops a disorder. 5. Legal and economic considerations are consequences rather than explanations. _Source: OpenStax Psychology 2e (CC BY 4.0), Ch 15 'Psychological Disorders', sections 15.1-15.11_