The Role of Psychosocial Rehabilitation Within the Biopsychosocial Model

What is it about?

Psychosocial Rehabilitation focuses on social and psychological factors related to a person’s rehabilitation experience and the outcome of overall treatment. This paper aims to promote psychosocial intervention and assessment through our own clinical demonstration project report and literature review of positive psychosocial attributes such as self-worth, adaptability, optimism, self-efficacy, coping skills, communication, interpersonal skills, and diverse therapy interventions designed to help a person overcome anxiety, distress, depression, and trauma. A person’s environment can be positive when filled with support but negative when they have become isolated and lack interpersonal relationships and support. Negative psychosocial responses such as anxiety, distress, social withdrawal, aggression, substance use, and impulsive behaviors such as gambling, and depression have the potential to hold people back from levels of attainable recovery. A search was conducted online on PubMed/MEDLINE for information on this topic using the keywords psychosocial, biopsychosocial, disability, and pain. Articles reviewed were published within the last 10 years and had a focus on areas labeled as psychosocial including but not limited to trauma, pain, coping skills, self-efficacy, adaptability, self-worth, optimism, communication, interpersonal skills, anxiety, distress, depression, environment, and expectations

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Why is it important?

I believe this is an important topic because it applies to all types of people who have difficulty to overcome. Engaging with others in an empathetic way regarding their psychological and psychosocial obstacles may help improve their participation in therapeutic rehabilitation, their prescribed medical treatments, and encouraged whole health lifestyle changes.

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