This essay will examine the biopsychosocial issues that have influenced the perceptions of the health and well being of a patient I have nursed during a recent clinical placement. For the purpose of this essay the name of this patient has been changed to protect his anonymity as well as to be compliant with the Nursing Midwifery Council Professional Code of Conduct (NMC 2008) regarding confidentiality. The patient‚ who will be known as William‚ is 62 years of age and has a venous leg ulcer to his
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The drug epidemic in the United States has been enlightening. Illegal drugs have cost the United States approximately 600 billion in total costs to the economy including lost wages‚ Biopsychosocial model provided a holistic approach to medicine‚ The biopsychosocial approach systematically considers biological‚ psychological and social factors and their complex interactions understanding healthcare‚ illness and health care delivery Biological Aspects of Substance Abuse Addiction can
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HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY REVIEW QUESTIONS 1. What is the field of health psychology? Identify and explain three reasons why this field emerged. The field of health psychology is a new division of the American Psychological Association (1978) that stated that health and illness are influenced by biology and psychological and social factors It is focused on promoting and maintaining health as well as prevention of illnesses and treatment The three reasons why this field emerged are: Shift in
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Biological diagnoses are the product of technological‚ political‚ and cultural contexts that makes up sociocultural products. Furthermore‚ biological diagnoses creates new realities and ways of being for the patient who has been diagnosed with said disease/illness. An example of a biological diagnoses that demonstrates that it is a sociocultural product and that it shapes new realities would be celiac disease. Celiac disease is an immune reaction to eating gluten‚ a protein found in wheat‚ barley
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It has recently announced that a new movie theater may be built in your neighborhood. Do you support or oppose this plan? Why? Use specific reasons and details to support your answer.Words: 334‚ TIME: 30 My neighborhood is a nice quiet area near the center of the city. Building a movie theatre in the neighborhood will not be so good for the people living here because can bring a lot of traffic‚ people will get annoyed by the noise of lots of people coming every day at the theatre and a I believe
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your mental illness would be dismissed as a placebo effect. Although over the last 50 years the medical model has slowly began to change‚ the “Biopsychosocial model” has become more widely adopted. This medical model accepts that health and disease are strongly influenced by a combination of biological‚ psychological‚ and social factors. The biopsychosocial model describes health as a state of well-being that we can actively attain and maintain. This shows
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The multifactorial model in health psychology is a leading paradigm that recognizes the multi-faceted nature of illnesses. It is not a clear-cut‚ simple case that a disease is caused by a singular factor. The fact is that decades if not over a century of modern research has led to the recognition that a host of factors‚ as well as their interactions‚ function in illness and health determination (Nevid & Rathus‚ p. 126). These varied factors that the multifactorial model indicates to be the range
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The biological or medical model approach examines psychological disorders as a type of illness and assumes it is a physical issue. The approach believes that factors such as genes‚ bio-chemistry‚ neuro-anatomy and germs are the causes of psychological disorders‚ and use treatments such as drugs and psychosurgery to rectify them. (Saul McLeod‚ 2008/2014) Anxiolytic drugs such as benzodiazepines are commonly used in the treatment of somebody with depression or bipolar as they increase activity in the
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This is a discussion of how language structures our experience especially with relation to others. However‚ language is also not a sufficient principle since it is already invented. Context of time and history are important in language‚ therefore already invented words taken out of context are not sufficient for the conception of normal. So even though language helps express experience‚ its also not sufficient in defining normal. Traditional bioethics places the individual as the center point of
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Self BioPsychoSocial Assessment Family: The client is a single mother of 4 children ages 8-23. She also has a 19 year old daughter that she placed for adoption. Her mother passed away from cancer in 2010 and her father is in poor health and living in her home town of Oregon. The client has 5 brothers and sisters (2 deceased) and no living grandparents. Significant others: The client has been divorced twice and is single at the present time. Her 17 year old daughter lives with her full time and
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