PSY 212 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Fetus, Systems Theory, Biopsychosocial Model
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Idea that mind and body together determine health and illness= biopsychosocial model. Health and illness are consequences of interplay of biological psychological and social factors. The biopsychosocial model versus the biomedical model. Biomedical model: illness can be explained on the basis of aberrant somatic bodily processes e. g. biochemical imbalances or neurophysiological abnormalities and assumes that psychological and social processes are irrelevant to disease process. It maintains biological psychological and social factors are all important determinants of health and illness. Macro level process (social support) and micro level process (cellular disorders/chemical imbalance) Mind and body cannot be distinguished in matters of health and illness. Health is something one achieves through attention to biological, psychological and social needs. Biological factors are micro level and psychological and social factors are macro level. System theory: all levels of organization are linked to each other hierarchically and that change in any one level will affect change in all other levels.
