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Biopsychosocial Model; Mind and Body; Responsiveness to Treatment Interventions; Holistic Medicine; Multidisciplinary - Interdisciplinary - Transdisciplinary Collaboration
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Preparing Mental Health Professionals For Work In Collaborative Care Settings, Angela G. Hester
Preparing Mental Health Professionals For Work In Collaborative Care Settings, Angela G. Hester
Loma Linda University Electronic Theses, Dissertations & Projects
There has been a significant shift regarding how health and illness are conceptualized. In decades past, the biomedical model predominated. Factors other than biological were not seen as important with regard to the diagnosis and treatment of illness; mind and body were viewed as separate. Engel’s 1977 article challenged the biomedical perspective with the biopsychosocial model, suggesting the reciprocal nature of biological, psychological and social factors on patients’ experience of health and illness, and responsiveness to treatment interventions. While viewing individuals holistically was not a new concept at that time, several factors led the biopsychosocial model to gain wide acceptance …