Running head: BIOPSYCHOSOCIAL VS. BIOMEDICAL MODEL 1
Biopsychosocial vs. Biomedical
ModelStudents Name:
Grand Canyon University
Class: Psy-352
, Biopsychosocial vs. Biomedical model 2
The assumption that each model holds is that the “biomedical approach assumes that all
human distress is considered disease”, (Carwile, 2013). To the contrary of the biopsychosocial
model that the factors of the interaction of health and illness, interact of biological,
psychological, and social, with the practitioner and patient, is crucial to the process of
diagnosing. Thus, providing focus on all as well as “a systems approach allows for evaluation of
all facets of a patient’s environment addressing everything from cellular to societal implications
of health and wellness”, (Carwile, 2013).
The leading causes of death effect which model is used because the biomedical model,
for instance, is used to seek and explain all disease in biologic terms. “The biomedical model
was hugely successful. At the beginning of the 20th century, the leading causes of death were
tuberculosis, pneumonia, influenza and diarrhea”, (Kaplan, 2009). It also excluded any
symptoms that cannot be explained in biologic terms.
On the other hand, the leading causes of death affect the biopsychosocial model is the
substantial evidence that risks for heart disease, many cancers, pulmonary disease, stroke,
poor diet and lack of physical activity. Also, alcohol, drug abuse and sexual behaviors,
including many other habits that people have in which increase health problems that cause a
full impact in therapies because patients fail to use the treatments as prescribed.
The model that lends itself more readily to research is a biopsychosocial model “Due to
the shifting concern in health care from infectious disease to mental affliction, the
biopsychosocial model has gradually become the new standard of viewing illness”,
(Sovereign Health Group, 2015). At one point in many years the biomedical model was one
Biopsychosocial vs. Biomedical
ModelStudents Name:
Grand Canyon University
Class: Psy-352
, Biopsychosocial vs. Biomedical model 2
The assumption that each model holds is that the “biomedical approach assumes that all
human distress is considered disease”, (Carwile, 2013). To the contrary of the biopsychosocial
model that the factors of the interaction of health and illness, interact of biological,
psychological, and social, with the practitioner and patient, is crucial to the process of
diagnosing. Thus, providing focus on all as well as “a systems approach allows for evaluation of
all facets of a patient’s environment addressing everything from cellular to societal implications
of health and wellness”, (Carwile, 2013).
The leading causes of death effect which model is used because the biomedical model,
for instance, is used to seek and explain all disease in biologic terms. “The biomedical model
was hugely successful. At the beginning of the 20th century, the leading causes of death were
tuberculosis, pneumonia, influenza and diarrhea”, (Kaplan, 2009). It also excluded any
symptoms that cannot be explained in biologic terms.
On the other hand, the leading causes of death affect the biopsychosocial model is the
substantial evidence that risks for heart disease, many cancers, pulmonary disease, stroke,
poor diet and lack of physical activity. Also, alcohol, drug abuse and sexual behaviors,
including many other habits that people have in which increase health problems that cause a
full impact in therapies because patients fail to use the treatments as prescribed.
The model that lends itself more readily to research is a biopsychosocial model “Due to
the shifting concern in health care from infectious disease to mental affliction, the
biopsychosocial model has gradually become the new standard of viewing illness”,
(Sovereign Health Group, 2015). At one point in many years the biomedical model was one
