A health editorial recently argued: 'Drug treatments for mental disorders are ultimately ineffective because these conditions do not originate from biological imbalances.'
For a mental disorder other than schizophrenia (such as depression or obsessive-compulsive disorder), use your knowledge of the possible explanations of its causes to assess how effective a biological treatment would be compared to a psychological treatment.
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