Engel applied the term biopsychosocial to medicine to emphasize the need to take into
account the psychologic and social aspects of medical practice. After an overview of the …

Ethical considerations should apply to all medical practice, but many people act as if they
apply only to research. For example, all research studies have to be scrutinised by an ethics …

The biopsychosocial model is the conceptual status quo of contemporary psychiatry.
Although it has played an important role in combatting psychiatric dogmatism, it has …

In this book, the authors provide a much-needed general theory of interdisciplinarity and
relate it to health/wellbeing research and professional practice. In so doing they make it …

Ethics and Values in Psychotherapy is an examination of the role of the therapist as ethicist
and the ways in which the ethical convictions of both therapist and client contribute to the …

This paper explores the problem of fragmentation in clinical psychology. It is suggested that
this is due to the nature of clinical psychology with its multitude of different concerns, ranging …

This book builds on the person-centred medicine movement to promote a shift in the
philosophy of care of distress. It discusses the vital importance of whole person health …

Rationale, aims and objectives Generalists manage a broad range of biomedical and
biographical knowledge as part of each clinical encounter, often in multiple encounters over …

Purpose. Hypotheses regarding the psychological factors implicated in the development and
maintenance of acne first emerged in the middle of the eighteenth century. However, the …

Dramatic global-migration patterns over recent decades have forever changed the racial,
ethnic, social, and cultural makeup of the people of the United States. Simultaneously, the …