Biopsychosocial Model in Contemporary Psychiatry: Current Validity and Future Prospects

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Concept of Mental Health and Disease for Practical Implementation: A Case-Based Teaching for Undergraduate Students Part II: Abnormal Psychology and Psychiatry and the Homoeopathic approach

“…12 Reaching the unreached must be our goal. Suitable training to our UGs rooted in the Bio-Psycho-Social approach of Engle's [13][14][15] will help the homoeopath to be more conversant with psychological factors from the outset. This will ultimately help us to reduce the morbidity and mortality due to psychiatric illnesses and prove the adage, 'There is no health without mental health'.…”

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“…This model emphasizes the interplay of three major dimensions ‐ biological, psychological and social in the development of psychiatric disorders. However, due to the later exponential developments in biological psychiatry, which includes mass knowledge in the fields of neuroimaging, genomics, and neurochemistry, and so forth, the psychological and social aspects of psychiatric disorders became less discussed (Tripathi et al, 2019). Despite such changes, illness attributional beliefs in psychosis nowadays is still commonly understood as perspectives existing on a continuum between biological and psychological (Ahn et al, 2009).…”

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“…The biopsychosocial model on the other hand, acknowledges there are biological, psychological, and social determinants to mental health. This model was developed to explain the complex interaction of these three systems and to establish a holistic approach to psychiatric illnesses (Tripathi et al, 2019). With the biopsychosocial model it is understood that the emotional undertone of an individual, their personality, the surrounding environment, and other social factors all influence the manifestation of illness (Tripathi et al, 2019).…”

“…This model was developed to explain the complex interaction of these three systems and to establish a holistic approach to psychiatric illnesses (Tripathi et al, 2019). With the biopsychosocial model it is understood that the emotional undertone of an individual, their personality, the surrounding environment, and other social factors all influence the manifestation of illness (Tripathi et al, 2019). Further, it explains that people do not suffer as isolated entities, but rather as a whole.…”

“…This perspective may help to explain why some seemingly healthy individuals can develop mental illness and some are more prone to mental illness than others. Biological factors that influence mental health can include genetics, hormones, toxins, infections, nutrition, and experienced trauma (Tripathi et al, 2019). Psychological components that can impact mental health can include negative thinking, emotional turmoil, and lack of self-control (Cardoso, 2013).…”