Biopsychosocial Factors Of Mental Health And Occupations

Patient-centered interviewing is a form of interview that prioritizes the concerns and interests of the patient by providing a solid platform for the patients to communicate their needs, which are then integrated into the overall care plan (Hardy, 2016). There is a growing evidence that suggests that physicians who focus on the patient as well as the disease are able to obtain historical data that is more accurate, increase patient satisfaction and adherence, and enhance the relationship between the patient and the physician (Medical Writings, 2001).

All too often in regards to medical treatment, physicians are taught everything known about the scientific approaches to disease but still fail to realize the important details of how the disease impacts the individual. Many physicians do not show empathy to their patients and instead just focus on the current diagnosis and the probable outcome. This creates a divide between patient and provider and can even lead to negative feelings of the patient that far outweigh the diagnosis itself. A feeling of hopelessness and despair may accompany the empty feeling that comes with failing to explore the patient’s perspective on care. In this essay, Parrish states,

“Don’t treat the disease, treat the patient” [9]. The concept of health has seemed to become complex in definition over the centuries as science improves. “Health is a complete state of physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease and infirmity.”-World Health Definition of Health (1948) [9]

there is more to caring for a patient than the physical ( Puchalski, 2009). The biopsychosocial-

“In my personal life as well as in my professional life I will always try to remember that we all have various background, and faced to a situation, I will treat people according to the way the perceived the situation. In regard to the Health Belied Model, I will try to not ignore the warnings of my body. I will seek for medical care or at least medical advices as soon as I will not feel on top of my game because a disease is better treated in its earlier phase.

This is an analysis of a taped interview between a nurse and a patient who is taking pre-employment medicals. The information given during the interview, including her name, Pink Cloud is fictitious because of the need of confidentiality. During the interview, objective and subjective data will be collected. The areas of communication focused on in the analysis are verbal, questioning and listening skills. Analysis will be made and later suggestions and recommendations will be made on how to make improvements in the future. To achieve this, direct quotations from the will be used to make references to the three theories being analysed and will be supported by the literature.

Conducting a successful health history interview is crucial to understanding the patient as a whole, and helps the provider gain understanding about the patient’s goals and outlook toward their health. “The interviewing process that generates the patient’s story is fluid and requires empathy, effective communication, and the relational skills to respond to patient cues, feelings, and concerns” (Bickley & Szilagyi, 2013, p 31). It is during the initial interview that the provider establishes rapport with the patient. A good rapport with the patient builds trust between the patient and provider. It is this trust that facilitates a complete and truthful patient interview, as the patient will be less fearful of

With the aid of a discussion guide and the low value care matrix draft, in depth interviews present the potential to collect more detailed information than what is often acquire using other methods, like surveys. Areas of qualitative research application have increased and are more recognized in healthcare with biomedical fields placing a distinction on the scope of information captured. Qualitative research provides data collection techniques that has the ability to obtain a participants perception and their experiences relating to the topic at hand. With the option to carry out interviews that form an information sharing atmosphere, with open ended questions, easily removes barriers to only receiving categorical, ordinal and interval feedback that participants commonly provide in survey research. Qualitative research interview methods, in particular, can revolve around the interviewee’s first hand experiences and their decision trails that precedes service delivery. This process also allows interviewees the freedom of expression and researchers the ability to systematically investigate practices, while

This was really an aspiring week to start with for my health psychology course. I have never thought so deeply on what heath meant to me. Maybe just the meaning of staying away from illness? Why did I need to know what health was and why this related to psychology? It was until I tried to understand about the biopsychosocial model, I realized that the meaning of health varied among different individuals as a wide range of aspects regarding to biological, psychological as well as social and cultural aspects might have an impact on the ideas of staying healthy. What influenced me most was the psychological approach in the model where I found that people responded and behaved differently to their health condition was due to the variability of

Communication is a vital part of our daily lives, even more so if an individual is part of the health care field. Effective communication will help prevent misunderstanding, and create a sense of comfort between the physiotherapist and patient. In correlation with physiotherapists needing to possess effective communication skills, physiotherapists need to be familiar with the biopsychosocial model. “The physiotherapy profession has undergone a paradigmatic shift in recent years, where a ‘biopsychosocial’ model of care has acquired popularity in response to mounting research evidence indicating better patient outcomes when used alongside traditional physiotherapy.” (Sanders et al., 2013)

Case studies are an important part of clinical psychology. One can learn about the biological, psychological, and social factors involved by studying patients with certain disorders or illnesses. The case study of Christina Ricci and Karen Carpenter are extraordinary and this analysis will give a brief overview of their case as well as discuss the biological, psychological, and social factors involved. This analysis will also explain the need for adaptation in the field of clinical psychology.

Trust between the patients and their doctors’ remains a major issue since some patients tend to hide some fact about themselves from their doctors. With better relationship between the patients and the doctor, the sick feel free to open up

The differences in the use of this method can be, it can miss information. Patients and families can refuse to answer the questions even though it is important. Unlike in other interviews, the nurse may not be able to select the sample as they have to deal with the patients and the families whom they take care of. Another difference is, in other interviews, there is interviewer bias. But in patient interviews, the interviewer bias is minimal as the level of competence of the nurse

The video begins by showing balls of a variety of colors after being tossed up slightly and beginning to bounce on a graduated blue surface. In the beginning, all the balls, which have a shadow as they bounce, seem to be bouncing in synchrony, are in clear focus, and are roughly the same size. However, as the video progresses, the color of the background continually changes and the shadows have seemingly disappeared. The balls are bouncing any which way, and seem to have spread out. The balls that have gravitated towards the back are blurry and small, while the ones in the front are of an increasingly large size and are in clear focus, so much so, that you can see a reflection off of their surface as they bounce off the camera. At the end of

Before going through the module, I thought asking the patients about their personal lives and emotions might seem intrusive and unprofessional at some level. I have heard about the multifactorial effects on illnesses, but personally had no idea how important it would be in the context of clinical practice. Being a patient at some point in my life, I recall how uncomfortable I felt when my doctor asked about my life rather than relevant questions about my symptoms. I would then tried to avoid the conversation and answer those questions as if they were close-ended questions. Relevancy is the key and it’s very subjective. A physician’s determination of relevancy might not align with the patient’s perspective on the questions being asked.