Model Of Health Analysis
Analysis of Health Views
Teresa Matos
June 23, 2014
STEPHANIE FERNANDEZ
PSYCH/626
Health is an expression representing well-being. Both a sound body as well as a sound mind is needed to constitute good health; it means completeness; something wholesome. Historically and in a variety of societies, notable theorists have underscored the principle that health signifies balance, the equivalent of centered (Antonovsky, 1979). The model of health has also been taken in the context of human parts, for instance, the health of a heart and the health of one’s psychology too. (Ferreira et al., 2001). Broadly, health means an integral view of personal well-being (Goldstein, 2000; Roose et al., 2001). People will refer to this by a means …show more content…
Some of the belief systems also consider different disease models, wellness as well as illness paradigms. This also includes certain culturally specific illnesses and syndromes. From a historical perspective, it can be confidently said that suggests that people initially ascribed the causes of ailments to certain categories; reasons within the person such as negative emotion or character; aspects existing in the natural environment such as pollution; agents related to other people or the social environment; and the supernatural aspects including God, fate, and native beliefs for example witchcraft or omen. Views about health and illnesses have progressively transformed over time through human history to the level where people and society no longer attribute the cause of illness only to the individual or the natural world but majorly ascribes it and explains illness causation and health through the western biomedical model of …show more content…
Specifically, the biomedical model hypothesizes that mental disorders are brain illnesses and highlights pharmacological therapy directed at supposed biological anomalies. This biologically oriented system to health has resulted in the application of psychiatric medications and illness-specific drugs. The biomedical model has attracted both the strongest of criticism and support and it is difficult to judge if it has been useful or not, however, the biomedical model has strongly influenced clinical psychology through the embracing of drug trial approach in psychotherapy
Teresa Matos
June 23, 2014
STEPHANIE FERNANDEZ
PSYCH/626
Health is an expression representing well-being. Both a sound body as well as a sound mind is needed to constitute good health; it means completeness; something wholesome. Historically and in a variety of societies, notable theorists have underscored the principle that health signifies balance, the equivalent of centered (Antonovsky, 1979). The model of health has also been taken in the context of human parts, for instance, the health of a heart and the health of one’s psychology too. (Ferreira et al., 2001). Broadly, health means an integral view of personal well-being (Goldstein, 2000; Roose et al., 2001). People will refer to this by a means …show more content…
Some of the belief systems also consider different disease models, wellness as well as illness paradigms. This also includes certain culturally specific illnesses and syndromes. From a historical perspective, it can be confidently said that suggests that people initially ascribed the causes of ailments to certain categories; reasons within the person such as negative emotion or character; aspects existing in the natural environment such as pollution; agents related to other people or the social environment; and the supernatural aspects including God, fate, and native beliefs for example witchcraft or omen. Views about health and illnesses have progressively transformed over time through human history to the level where people and society no longer attribute the cause of illness only to the individual or the natural world but majorly ascribes it and explains illness causation and health through the western biomedical model of …show more content…
Specifically, the biomedical model hypothesizes that mental disorders are brain illnesses and highlights pharmacological therapy directed at supposed biological anomalies. This biologically oriented system to health has resulted in the application of psychiatric medications and illness-specific drugs. The biomedical model has attracted both the strongest of criticism and support and it is difficult to judge if it has been useful or not, however, the biomedical model has strongly influenced clinical psychology through the embracing of drug trial approach in psychotherapy