George L. Engel's Biopsychosocial Model
The biopsychosocial approach is a systematic way to change a patient’s thinking in order to apply instruction provided to the patient, without resorting to deception or deprivation, by changing their eating habits (Bera, Bota, & Hsu, 2016). Therefore, it addresses obesity in multiple areas rather than focusing on one aspect, allowing a more effective result.
According to Engel's model, medical thinking has slowly evolved by incorporating and integrating psychosocial components. His model prescribes a fundamentally different path from the still-guiding biomedical model: although, to Engel, a model for medicine must include the psychosocial dimensions (personal, emotional, family, community) in addition to the biological aspects of all patients …show more content…
Engel (1980) highlighted the inadequacies and limitations of the traditional biomedical model and advocated the endorsement of a biopsychosocial approach. The biopsychosocial model allows illness to be viewed as a result of interacting mechanisms at the cellular, tissue organismic, interpersonal and environmental levels. Accordingly, the study of every disease must include the individual, their body and their surrounding environment as essential components of the total system in order to obtain a more practical and effective result in relation to treating obesity (Fava & Sonino, 2008). Psychosocial factors may operate to facilitate, sustain or modify the course of illness, even though their relative weight may vary from illness to illness, from one individual to another and even between two different episodes of the same illness in the same individual (Fava & Sonino, …show more content…
Evidence supporting the biopsychosocial model has considerably increased over the years and is becoming more dominant in how the medical industry is dealing with diseases like obesity. Moreover, psychological conditions such as depression, anxiety and hostility, the ways in which individuals experience, perceive, evaluate and respond to their own health status may affect the course, therapeutic response and outcome of a given illness episode (Fava & Sonino, 2008). As a result, psychological wellbeing was found to a play a protective role in the dynamic balance between health and disease outlined by
According to Engel's model, medical thinking has slowly evolved by incorporating and integrating psychosocial components. His model prescribes a fundamentally different path from the still-guiding biomedical model: although, to Engel, a model for medicine must include the psychosocial dimensions (personal, emotional, family, community) in addition to the biological aspects of all patients …show more content…
Engel (1980) highlighted the inadequacies and limitations of the traditional biomedical model and advocated the endorsement of a biopsychosocial approach. The biopsychosocial model allows illness to be viewed as a result of interacting mechanisms at the cellular, tissue organismic, interpersonal and environmental levels. Accordingly, the study of every disease must include the individual, their body and their surrounding environment as essential components of the total system in order to obtain a more practical and effective result in relation to treating obesity (Fava & Sonino, 2008). Psychosocial factors may operate to facilitate, sustain or modify the course of illness, even though their relative weight may vary from illness to illness, from one individual to another and even between two different episodes of the same illness in the same individual (Fava & Sonino, …show more content…
Evidence supporting the biopsychosocial model has considerably increased over the years and is becoming more dominant in how the medical industry is dealing with diseases like obesity. Moreover, psychological conditions such as depression, anxiety and hostility, the ways in which individuals experience, perceive, evaluate and respond to their own health status may affect the course, therapeutic response and outcome of a given illness episode (Fava & Sonino, 2008). As a result, psychological wellbeing was found to a play a protective role in the dynamic balance between health and disease outlined by