Biopsychosocial Practice: A Science-Based Framework for Behavioral Health Care

✍ Scribed by Timothy P. Melchert

• Publisher: American Psychological Association
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 369
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Throughout the history of mental health practice, conflicting and irreconcilable theories have caused confusion about how disorders form, what they look like, and how they should be assessed and treated. But thanks to dramatic scientific advances in recent years, these patchwork theories can now be replaced by a unified, science-based, biopsychosocial framework for behavioral healthcare.

This book presents the essential scientific and ethical foundations of the biopsychosocial framework and then applies it across the treatment process, from intake through outcome assessment. In doing so, the book provides a critical basis for the increasingly integrated healthcare systems of the 21st century.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Introduction
Part I
Conceptual Foundations of the Biopsychosocial Approach to Behavioral Health Care
Chapter 1 The Foundational Framework of the Biopsychosocial Approach
Chapter 2
Scientific Foundations of Behavioral Health Care
Chapter 3
Ethical Foundations of Behavioral Health Care
Part II
The Public We Serve: Its Biopsychosocial Circumstances
Chapter 4
Psychological Functioning
Chapter 5
Sociocultural Factors
Chapter 6
Physical Health
Chapter 7 Biopsychosocial Factors Interacting Over Time: A Developmental Perspective
Part III The Behavioral Health Care Treatment Process From the Biopsychosocial Perspective
Chapter 8
Assessment
Chapter 9
Treatment Planning
Chapter 10
Treatment
Chapter 11
Outcomes Assessment
Part IV
Additional Implications of the Biopsychosocial Approach
Chapter 12 Public Health Perspective on Behavioral Health
Chapter 13 Integrating Behavioral Health Care Into Primary Health Care
Chapter 14 The Potential and Promise of Biopsychosocial Behavioral Health Care
References
Index
About the Author