Revisiting the biological perspective in the use of biopsychosocial assessments in social work

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2168945
AutoresAbigail Burns (Mack Center, School of Social Welfare, University of California, Berkeley, California, USA), Abigail C Burns, Erin Dannecker (Mack Center, School of Social Welfare, University of California, Berkeley, California, USA), Erin A Dannecker (0000-0003-1816-5754), Michael J Austin (0000-0002-0087-6841, Mack Center, School of Social Welfare, University of California, Berkeley, California, USA)
Año2019
Volumen29
Número2
Páginas177-194
Fecha de publicación2019-02-17
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of Human Behavior in the Social Environment (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1091-1359 • E-ISSN: 1540-3556
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/10911359.2018.1500505
OpenAlexW2893453088
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas2
Referencias citadas48

The call for increased attention to the biopsychosocial perspective in social work practice is now decades old in the USA. And yet the challenge of teaching and learning from this perspective for those with limited background in biology calls for more inter-disciplinary examples to assist students with the process of engaging in theory-informed practice. In addition to identifying the key elements of human biology, this review of the literature focuses on four examples of client behaviors that receive little or no attention in most current textbooks on the inter-disciplinary nature of human behavior in the social environment; namely, the psychobiology of sleep, the sociobiology of eating, the neurobiology of post-partum depression, and the behavioral endocrinology of menopause. This review concludes with implications for practice

Behavioural sciences · Biopsychosocial model · Discipline · Engineering ethics · Perspective (graphical · Psychiatry · Psychotherapist · Social science · Sociobiology · Sociology · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development · Health, psychology, and well-being · Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum · Psychology · Social Work · Behavioral Neuroscience