TY - JOUR
T1 - Knowing, valuing, acting
T2 - Clues to revising the biopsychosocial model
AU - Sadler, John Z.
AU - Hulgus, Yosaf F.
PY - 1990
Y1 - 1990
N2 - While remaining influential in education and research in psychiatry and medicine, the biopsychosocial (BPS) model has been criticized for ambiguity in conceptualizing everyday clinical problems. As a multilevel general systems approach, it leaves obscure which system level (cellular, person, family, community, and so on) is most clinically important at any point in time. As a model for psychiatry and medicine, it does not address the practical and moral dimensions of clinical work. This report reviews criticisms and concerns about the BPS model. These criticisms are used to begin a more practicable revision of the model.
AB - While remaining influential in education and research in psychiatry and medicine, the biopsychosocial (BPS) model has been criticized for ambiguity in conceptualizing everyday clinical problems. As a multilevel general systems approach, it leaves obscure which system level (cellular, person, family, community, and so on) is most clinically important at any point in time. As a model for psychiatry and medicine, it does not address the practical and moral dimensions of clinical work. This report reviews criticisms and concerns about the BPS model. These criticisms are used to begin a more practicable revision of the model.
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U2 - 10.1016/0010-440X(90)90001-9
DO - 10.1016/0010-440X(90)90001-9
M3 - Article
C2 - 2187654
AN - SCOPUS:0025313470
SN - 0010-440X
VL - 31
SP - 185
EP - 195
JO - Comprehensive Psychiatry
JF - Comprehensive Psychiatry
IS - 3
ER -