The Biopsychosocial Model Flashcards
What are examples of biological factors?
- tissues affected
- immune response
- sleep
- nutritional status
What are examples of socio-demographic factors?
- socioeconomic status (SES)
- age
- gender
- race
- ethnicity
What are examples of psychological factors?
- personality
- emotions
- behaviors
- cognitive processes
What does the biopsychosocial model allow therapists to do?
to move beyond a narrow focus on biological factors and address a much broader rand of factors that can have significant impact on client outcomes
What are biological factors?
- physiological dispositions that may influence rehab
What do biological factors help the patient do?
- assist them in participating in identifying and prioritizing perceived deficits, goal areas, and preferred approaches to intervention
- enhance self-efficacy
- perceived utility
- motivation
What do psychological factors consist of?
- consideration of the roles of sleep and nutrition in healing
- cognitive appraisals
- psychological strategies for behavior modification
- the role of anxiety and depression in the rehab process
- emotional responses to injury, impairment, disability, and intervention
- behavior modification
What are cognitive appraisals?
the patient’s beliefs regarding their condition, the situation, and the ability to impact change or benefit from interventions
What cognitive skills are helpful to look at to understand the patient’s level of understanding and ability to participate in carryover and generalized tx recommendations?
- sustained attention
- alternating attention
- divided attention
- dual task ability
- orientation
- recall
- memory
- problem-solving
- sequencing
- insight and judgement
- information processing
- perceptual skills
What does clinical profiling assess?
- motivation
- focus
- anxiety
- worry
- expectations
- emotions
- identity
- understanding
- pain tolerance
What are social-contextual factors?
sources of stress beyond the primary diagnosis and related impairments
- personal
- relational
- family
- vocational
- financial
- environmental
How can we assist patients with their social-contextual factors?
- convenience in scheduling
- accessibility and comfort of the tx environment
