Essay title: Health Psychology challenges the assumptions
underlying the biomedical modl
Introduction
• Provide a brief introduction around the area e.g.
biomedical and biopsychosocial model.
Briefly describe both models.
• The most dominant model in explaining the disease, was the
biomedical model, emergences of new approaches like Health Psychology provided
a framework for understanding causes of diseases and treatments, the
Biopsychosocial model.
Discussion
• Discuss how the biopsychosocial model challenges the
biomedical • For example: challenges of initiation of illness,
progression of illness, coping with illness, understanding of the illness,
causes of illness etc.
• Provide
evidence from one or different chronic health conditions
Conclusion
• Summarise all the key points of your discussion –
biomedical and biopsychosocial model.
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