SOWK 2020 Quiz: BPS+
Document Summary
A bio-psycho-social plus approach to addiction and recovery. Adjunct senior lecturer, factor-inwentash faculty of social work. The bio-psycho-social (bps) model was developed to help medical practitioners frame health and illness not only in biological terms, but to include psychological and social perspectives as well (engel, 1977). The model has been widely accepted and has been taken up in a variety of domains beyond health care. A key point in this approach is that these three dimensions are not separate vectors, but interconnected and interdependent. Rather than seeing illness as an event that just occurs in the body of a particular person, the bps approach is to factor in psychological and social aspects to build a comprehensive approach to understanding illness, recovery, and health. Recently skinner and herie (2014) have suggested an expanded view of the bps model which they called bps plus (bps+).
