Biopsychosocial+Model

= Definition: = A perspective that focuses on health as well as illness and holds that both are determined by a combination of biological, psychological, and social factors. Gen Psych, Ch 10, pp.324-325

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=In the News:= [|Biopsychosocial Model Thirty Years Later] The dominant model of disease today is, as 30 years ago, still biomedical, with molecular biology being the basic scientific discipline. However, there is evidence for the role of stressful life events and repeated or chronic environmental challenge in modulating individual vulnerability to illness.

[|The Biopsychosocial Model of Addiction] Burning Tree, a nationally recognized leader in long-term drug and alcohol rehabilitation, invited Dr. Burns Brady to give his talk on “The Biopsychosocial Model of Addiction” in Dallas, Texas for professionals in the addiction treatment industry on April 28.

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