TY - JOUR
T1 - Integrating the bio into the biopsychosocial
T2 - Understanding and treating biological phenomena in psychiatric-mental health nursing
AU - Abraham, Ivo L.
AU - Fox, Jeanne C.
AU - Cohen, Bobbye T.
N1 - Funding Information:
From the School of Nursing; Department of Behavioral Medicine and Psychiatry, School of Medicine; Center on Aging and Health and Rural Mental Health Research Center; University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA the Division of Nursing, University of Virginia Medical Center, Charlottesville, VA and the Catholic University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium. Supported by Grant No. 1 TOlMH19362 from the National Institute of Mental Health (Rockville, MD) and Grant No. UHCBOOO3J from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation (Battle Creek, MI). Address reprint requests to lvo L. Abraham, Ph.D., FMN., C.S., Center on Aging and Health, University of Virginia, 170 Rugby Rd., Charlottesville, VA 22903. Copyright 0 1992 by W.B. Saunders Company 0883~9417/92lO605-0007$3.OOlO
PY - 1992/10
Y1 - 1992/10
N2 - Advances in neuroscientific understandings of the interrelationships between brain, behavior, emotion, and cognition offer new opportunities for psychiatricmental health nursing. Yet, even though the discipline conceptually embraces a biopsychosocial perspective as part of its holistic mandate, the factual integration of biological sciences into practice, research, and education is limited. Integrating the biological perspective into a holistic paradigm and progressing toward a discipline in which the biological, psychological, and social interact coherently and interdependently requires a dual focus on understanding and treating patients and their social and physical environments. We describe how in the past the discipline has strived toward understanding and treating patients from predominantly psychological and social perspectives. We also show how progress in the biology of mental health and illness provides new avenues for understanding and treating patients' responses to actual and potential health problems. This in turn will contribute to the emergence of a truly holistic discipline of psychiatric-mental health nursing.
AB - Advances in neuroscientific understandings of the interrelationships between brain, behavior, emotion, and cognition offer new opportunities for psychiatricmental health nursing. Yet, even though the discipline conceptually embraces a biopsychosocial perspective as part of its holistic mandate, the factual integration of biological sciences into practice, research, and education is limited. Integrating the biological perspective into a holistic paradigm and progressing toward a discipline in which the biological, psychological, and social interact coherently and interdependently requires a dual focus on understanding and treating patients and their social and physical environments. We describe how in the past the discipline has strived toward understanding and treating patients from predominantly psychological and social perspectives. We also show how progress in the biology of mental health and illness provides new avenues for understanding and treating patients' responses to actual and potential health problems. This in turn will contribute to the emergence of a truly holistic discipline of psychiatric-mental health nursing.
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U2 - 10.1016/0883-9417(92)90041-G
DO - 10.1016/0883-9417(92)90041-G
M3 - Article
C2 - 1476457
AN - SCOPUS:0026934452
VL - 6
SP - 296
EP - 305
JO - Archives of Psychiatric Nursing
JF - Archives of Psychiatric Nursing
SN - 0883-9417
IS - 5
ER -