What is the Biopsychosocial Model? How does it apply to Rehabilitation Treatment?

Since as early as the late 1970’s, there has been an increasing focus on the role of human behavior and psychology play in determining our overall health and well-being. Up and to that point in time, the healthcare field had been based on the biomedical model of evaluation and treatment [6]. There are many reasons for this that involve in-depth discussion of the philosophical underpinnings of the culture and the times when the field of medicine and healthcare was born. Regardless of the reasons behind the focus on the biology of disease, the fact is that the healthcare field began focusing mainly on the physical aspects of disease and health.

Author(s): Rafael Salazar

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