Citation: Norwich B (2016) Conceptualizing Special Educational Needs Using a Biopsychosocial Model in England: The Prospects and Challenges of Using the International Classification of Functioning Framework. Front. Educ. 1:5. doi: 10.3389/feduc.2016.00005 Conceptualizing Special educational Needs Using a Biopsychosocial Model in england: The Prospects and Challenges of Using the international C...

The biomedical model posits that mental disorders are brain diseases and emphasizes pharmacological treatment to target presumed biological abnormalities. A biologically-focused approach to science, policy, and practice has dominated the American healthcare system for more than three decades. During this time, the use of psychiatric medications has sharply increased and mental disorders have be...

The transition from a dichotomous diagnostic classification system to the more holistic approach to understanding mental disorders engendered by the so-called biopsychosocial model has definite advantages, but it runs the risk of sacrificing methodological rigor to achieve all-inclusiveness. The Special Article by Bebbington on understanding psychosis in this issue attempts to show that high-qu...

An exciting period in mental and physical health research is beginning, resulting from a paradigm shift from an outdated biomedical reductionism approach to a more comprehensive biopsychosocial model, which emphasizes the unique interactions among biological, psychological, and social factors required to better understand health and illness. This biopsychosocial perspective is important in eval...

I respond to the 4 commentaries by Awais Aftab & Kristopher Nielsen (A&N), Hane Htut Maung (HHM), Diane O’Leary (DO’L) and Kathryn Tabb (KT) under 3 main headings: “What is BPSM really?” Why update it?; “Is our approach foundationally compromised?”, finally, “Antagonists or fellow travellers?”.

The effects of environmental and biopsychosocial factors on financial risk tolerance is analyzed. The research is premised on Irwin’s (1993) risk-taking behavioral model. Findings from an OLS regression, using a sample of faculty and staff from two universities (N = 406), indicate that education, marital status, net worth, financial knowledge, and household income, as environmental factors, are...

The biopsychosocial model in Anglo-American psychiatry is appraised. Its content and history are described and its scientific and ethical strengths noted. It is situated in relation to competing approaches in the profession, especially an older but enduring biomedical model. The tensions provoked by the latter, in relation to ‘anti-psychiatry’, the users’ movement and ‘critical psychiatry’ are ...