HLTHAGE 3N03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Cognitive Model, Biomedical Model, Biopsychosocial Model
14 Nov 2018
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Social = social (and environment: external environment, other people in your life (family and friends), amount of social support that you may have or not have. Strengths: acknowledges factors outside "biological, outside what the biomedical model would only include, helps to account for variability, can help to explain variability. Easy to understand: 3 kinds of groupings and factors, they may influence each other and influence the risk of mental health and mental illness problems. Ignores spiritual aspects of health: world health would include spirituality. Lack guidelines for clinical treatments: cmb stems from the perspective of biopsychosocial perspective. Entry level for interventions is thoughts and behaviours. Idea is that it"s very difficult to change feelings compared to changing behaviours and thoughts. Thoughts, behaviours and feelings they have bidirectional arrows because they interact with each other. If you change your thoughts and behaviours, ultimately you will change your feelings towards a problem.
