The Biopsychosocial Approach
Subtitle: Past, Present, Future
Contributors: Richard Frankel (Editor); Timothy Quill (Editor); Susan McDaniel (Editor)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: University of Rochester Press; Brand: University of Rochester Press
Published: June 27, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9781580461023
Subjects: Clinical psychology; Medicine: General Issues; Psychology; Medical / Nursing; Health Care Delivery; History; Research; History of medicine; Medical / General; Social Psychology; Medicine; Medicine and psychology; Philosophy; Psychoneuroimmunology; Social medicine
Description: The biopsychosocial perspective involves an appreciation that disease and illness do not manifest themselves only in terms of pathophysiology, but also may simultaneously affect many different levels of functioning, from cellular to organ system to person to family to society. This approach provides a better understanding of disease processes as encompassing multiple levels of functioning including the effect of the physician-patient relationship.