TY - JOUR
T1 - Comorbidity of chronic pain and mental health disorders
T2 - The biopsychosocial perspective
AU - Gatchel, Robert J.
PY - 2004/11
Y1 - 2004/11
N2 - An exciting period in mental and physical health research is beginning, resulting from a paradigm shift from an outdated biomedical reductionism approach to a more comprehensive biopsychosocial model, which emphasizes the unique interactions among biological, psychological, and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 evaluating the comorbidity of mental and physical health problems. Psychiatric and medical pathologies interface prominently in pain disorders. Important topics in the biopsychosocial approach to comorbid chronic mental and physical health disorders, focusing primarily on pain, are presented. Though this biopsychosocial model has produced dramatic advances in health psychology over the past 2 decades, important challenges to moving the field forward still remain.
AB - An exciting period in mental and physical health research is beginning, resulting from a paradigm shift from an outdated biomedical reductionism approach to a more comprehensive biopsychosocial model, which emphasizes the unique interactions among biological, psychological, and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 evaluating the comorbidity of mental and physical health problems. Psychiatric and medical pathologies interface prominently in pain disorders. Important topics in the biopsychosocial approach to comorbid chronic mental and physical health disorders, focusing primarily on pain, are presented. Though this biopsychosocial model has produced dramatic advances in health psychology over the past 2 decades, important challenges to moving the field forward still remain.
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U2 - 10.1037/0003-066X.59.8.795
DO - 10.1037/0003-066X.59.8.795
M3 - Review article
C2 - 15554853
AN - SCOPUS:8744315857
SN - 0003-066X
VL - 59
SP - 795
EP - 805
JO - American Psychologist
JF - American Psychologist
IS - 8
ER -