Essays on Biopsychosocial Model

Introduction

Genetic counselling is defined as the information, guidance, and support provided by a genetic counsellor or medical geneticist to an individual, a couple, or a family about a genetic condition. The information may help the client (affected individual or family) understand how a gene variant underlies an observed phenotype, disease prognosis, and the probability of transmission to progeny. Apart from information to help the client make informed decisions about lifestyle, treatment, and reproduction, a counsellor provides psychosocial support to minimize the adverse psychological, intrafamilial, and social consequences of genetic testing. Therefore, genetic counselling has an educational as well as ...

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One of the most prevalent addictions in our society that has far-reaching social, economic and psychological ramifications is alcoholism. At least 16.3 million Americans who are above 18 years have Alcohol Use Disorder as at 2014. However, not everyone who consumes or excessively consumes alcohol ends up with alcohol use disorder. This study speculates that persons with alcohol addiction have an inherently addictive personality and goes ahead to propose a study to investigate it. Using a random sample, a two group-study will be implemented. Personality test will be used to collect information on addictive personality. A t-test for two-groups ...

This paper discusses the significance of biopsychosocial model in the field of healthcare. A biopsychosocial model is a tool that a general practitioner utilizes to inspect how psychosomatic disorders build up. According to White (2005), the bio-psychosocial model affirms ill health is indomitable by a forceful contact between natural, mental, and societal factors (White, 2005). The lesson provides a classification of the bio-psychosocial model and provides exact details to demonstrate that how it can be used. To help enlighten the complications, the general practitioners have implemented various models and theories that explain that how several factors contribute to healthiness ...

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One of the most prevalent addition in our society that has far reaching social, economic and psychological ramifications is alcoholism. At least 16.3 million Americans who are above 18 years have Alcohol Use Disorder as at 2014. However, not everyone who consumes or excessively consumes alcohol ends up with alcohol use disorder. This study speculates that persons with alcohol addiction have an inherently addictive personality and goes ahead to propose a study to investigate it. Using a random sample, a two group-study will be implemented. Personality test will be used to collect information on addictive personality. A t-test for ...

The biopsychosocial model is applicable to a wide range of issues in nursing. The model states that there are biological (body), psychological (mind), and environmental (social) causes of disease that all need to be addressed as part of the nursing profession (Renjith et al., 2016). The model reflects a holistic approach to nursing that incorporates all of the needs of the patient as part of the healing process, rather than focusing only on the physical. It is a useful tool for understanding the issue of diabetes. Diabetes is on the increase in the United States (Renjith et al., 2016), ...

Smoking is a learned habit that has existed in the society for long. This allows us to understand how the habit affects health and wellbeing both. Though the country may make millions of dollars selling tobacco, it spends several times more on treating diseases caused by the smoking habit. Explain why sociology is useful in helping us to challenge the dominance of biomedicine and understand health and health care as shaped by biopsychosocial factors. The society we belong treats scientific knowledge as proven and reliable information to improve once understanding about the world we live. Biomedical understanding of diseases ...

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Parents, siblings, and community can play a vital role in shaping up one’s socialization patterns in adulthood. From the description of the childhood days of Eduardo, it is apparent that he was not a motivated person and did not receive any academic performance pressures from parents as well as siblings. Eduardo seem to enjoy an extended family set up, with strong bonds among his siblings and engage in frequent interaction among his kith and kin. However, Eduardo has not developed the skill of establishing relationship with colleagues and peers outside home. Cooperativeness and closeness among family members may have passively influenced ...

Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is currently defined as a trauma-related or stressor-related disorder in the 5th edition of the “Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (American Psychiatric Association [APA], 2013). It is caused by any traumatic event, but catastrophic events, physical abuse, and combat engagement in war are the most prevalent causes of PTSD (Sullivan, 2012). The symptoms usually start showing three months after an individual experiences a traumatic event, and they need to last for at least one month before an official diagnosis can be made. The most common symptoms include behavioral changes (e.g. avoidance of situations associated with ...

In 1977 George Engel published his seminal piece on biopsychosocial theory in Nature. In the article he argued that biomedical theories failed to account for the human experience of being ill and only noted the biochemical derangement of the disease. Furthermore, in order to fully elucidate clinical illness it was necessary to correlate the laboratory data with behavioral and psychosocial information (131). Engel opined that the “biomedical model ignores both the rigor required to achieve reliability in the interview process and the necessity to analyze the meaning of the patient's report in psychological, social, and cultural as well as ...

The Contribution of the Biomedical Model of Health

The Biomedical model postulates that all diseases are as a result of processes which are physiological (Stretch, 2002). This model does not consider the role of psychological or social factors in disease spread and treatment. While this model has been associated with significant strides in health care, it is however not responsible for the reduced rates of mortality and morbidity. This is because studies reveal that a reduction in mortality occurred before medical interventions were available as in the cases of influenza, pneumonia, tuberculosis and other diseases (Stretch, 2002, p.56). The reduced mortality that was seen was as a result of the ...