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The history of the biopsychosocial approach in medicine: before and after Engel
Edward Shorter
in Biopsychosocial Medicine: An integrated approach to understanding illness
This chapter presents a history of the biopsychosocial approach in medicine, including its origins, the work of George Engel, and the development of the biopsychosocial model after Engel. ...
Are the patient-centred and biopsychosocial approaches compatible?
Francis Creed
in Biopsychosocial Medicine: An integrated approach to understanding illness
This chapter addresses the question of whether patient-centred and biopsychosocial approaches are compatible. It first outlines the patient-centred approaches, before considering whether ...
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Remediable or preventable social factors in the aetiology and prognosis of medical disorders
Michael Marmot
in Biopsychosocial Medicine: An integrated approach to understanding illness
This chapter reviews the role of social factors in disease incidence. It outlines data suggesting that social gradients affect differences in morbidity and mortality and that these change ...
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Remediable or preventable psychological factors in the aetiology and prognosis of medical disorders
Andrew Steptoe
in Biopsychosocial Medicine: An integrated approach to understanding illness
This chapter outlines recent developments in understanding how psychological factors contribute to medical disorders. Traditional clinical and epidemiological studies in which psychological ...
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Biopsychosocial Medicine: An integrated approach to understanding illness
Peter White (ed.)
The biopsychosocial model is an approach to medicine which stresses the importance of a holistic approach. It considers factors outside the biological process of illness when trying to ...
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Beyond the biomedical to the biopsychosocial: integrated medicine
Peter White
in Biopsychosocial Medicine: An integrated approach to understanding illness
This chapter summarizes the previous chapters in the title and draws some conclusions as to the potential integration of the biopsychosocial approach into healthcare provision, and argues ...
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How important is the biopsychosocial approach?: Some examples from research
Jos Kleijnen
in Biopsychosocial Medicine: An integrated approach to understanding illness
This chapter explains some of the research investigating the effects of contextual factors on health outcomes. A core factor of the biopsychosocial approach is the context in which ...
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Managing Chronic Health Concerns
Christy M. Walcott and Jennifer S. Kazmerski
in School Mental Health Services for Adolescents
The chapter “Managing Chronic Health Concerns,” in School Mental Health Services for Adolescents, reviews biopsychosocial influences on learning and behavior and presents service models ...
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What are the barriers to healthcare systems using a biopsychosocial approach and how might they be overcome?
Kate Lorig
in Biopsychosocial Medicine: An integrated approach to understanding illness
This chapter describes an expert patient-led psychological and behavioural programme aimed at improving health status for those with chronic conditions. It presents its structure, model, ...
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Final discussion: how to overcome the barriers
Peter White
in Biopsychosocial Medicine: An integrated approach to understanding illness
This chapter presents a discussion into the barriers that are preventing wider use of the biopsychosocial approach in healthcare that have been identified in this title’s individual ...
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Complementary and alternative medicine: shopping for health in post-modern times
Adrian Furnham
in Biopsychosocial Medicine: An integrated approach to understanding illness
This chapter looks at the philosophy and beliefs behind complementary and alternative medicine (CAM), and contrasts them with the approach of orthodox medicine (OM). It discusses the ...
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A case of irritable bowel syndrome that illustrates the biopsychosocial model of illness
Doug Drossman
in Biopsychosocial Medicine: An integrated approach to understanding illness
This chapter illustrates how the biopsychosocial model might work within the context of medical practice. It discusses its relevance to research using a case study as an example of the role ...
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The biopsychosocial approach: a note of caution
George Davey Smith
in Biopsychosocial Medicine: An integrated approach to understanding illness
This chapter provides a critique of whether the biopsychosocial model is useful in understanding aetiological factors in chronic diseases. It illustrates the arguments by referring to ...
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The theoretical basis of the biopsychosocial model
Helge Malmgren
in Biopsychosocial Medicine: An integrated approach to understanding illness
This chapter addresses the philosophy behind the biopsychosocial model. It summarizes five aetiological problems that the biopsychosocial model must address (nature versus nurture; ...
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Can neurobiology explain the relationship between stress and disease?
Stafford Lightman
in Biopsychosocial Medicine: An integrated approach to understanding illness
This chapter explores if neurobiology can explain the relationship between stress and disease. It considers if events that occurred early in life, perhaps during a period of prolonged ...
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Fear and depression as remediable causes of disability in common medical conditions in primary care
Michael Von Korff
in Biopsychosocial Medicine: An integrated approach to understanding illness
This chapter argues that psychological states, in particular fear and depression, are potentially remediable causes of social role disability among primary care patients. Using chronic low ...
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