Biopsychosocial Essay 1

A life stage is a period of human development for which the Association of Qualitative Research (2013) states “is assumed to be linked to certain opportunities and constraints and to be significant to certain activities or choices. In addition, it is suggested that different psychological tasks have to be undertaken as the individual matures, and transitions between life stages can be times of crisis.”Likewise, Erikson (About.com Psychology) suggests a theory of development in which people have to perform different tasks and positive social interactions throughout their lifespan to maintain a healthier personality. He suggests 8 life stages (infancy, early childwood, preschool, school age, adolescence, young adulthood, middle adulthood and maturity) of which young adulthood (19 to 40 years) is manifest by the conflict of intimacy against isolation, accompanied by significant changes in lifestyle and increase of responsibilities. By the same token (emotional and SDHEAH, (2013) infers that Identity, followed by intimacy and generativity are concerns in young adults. Therefore, Jesse Perrault (Psychosocial aspect of health care, P12) suggests that health care providers adopt a model of care that enable them to know their patients and help them to stay healthy, a model that takes lifestyle and psychosocial stresses into account in addition to biological factors because they are important determinants of heath and illness. The following paragraphs will explore the biospychosocial model of care in contrast to the biomedical model, will look at its advantages and critics, the biopsychosocial issues at young adulthood, how the biopsychosocial approach is used into in the ward where the writer was on placement, and the way the writer will exploit this approach in the future.
According to NCBI (2004) the model of care that has been predominant for centuries is the biomedical model. This model only takes into account the physical aspects of health which include physiology,