| There have been numerous methods of mental | | | | model to utilize in developing drugs or treatments. |
| diseases' diagnoses. The variety is caused by | | | | There has also been some critique regarding the |
| numerous viewpoints on mental diseases' origin. The | | | | biomedical model. The model has tendency to |
| biomedical model was developed in the 1800's and | | | | emphasize that natural science is the most compelling |
| has been the standard for medical diagnoses. The | | | | knowledge approach. The main contention against the |
| model is focuses on standard performance or | | | | model is that it diminishes societal and non-biological |
| characteristics of the different physical process of | | | | psychology. Critics of the model believe that this |
| the body, for example its chemistry and pathology, | | | | representation isolates the person. However, there is |
| to determine deviations. In the context of mental | | | | no denying that the biomedical model provides |
| health diagnoses, it utilizes elevation or deficiencies in | | | | standards of diagnoses that are backed by significant |
| the nervous system that contribute to aberrant | | | | and collaborative information. It is essential in creating |
| behavior. For example, if the biomedical model is to | | | | nursing standards and helps in the formulation of |
| be used to in understanding epileptic episodes, the | | | | nursing scenarios. A new model, the biopsychosocial, |
| focus would be on the synaptic storms in the brain | | | | model that has been developed based on the |
| that characterizes epileptic episodes. The biomedical | | | | principles of the biomedical model. The biopsychosocial |
| model has been tested means of identifying disorders | | | | model adopts the same foundations of the biomedical |
| became it utilizes a very ordered standard of | | | | model but also now includes psychological and social |
| reference. The biomedical model is popular in | | | | factors. This has allowed the biomedical model to also |
| psychiatry and has been utilized particularly in the | | | | include factors external to the biology of the |
| standards of medication prescriptions. Since the | | | | individual and also has increased its application to |
| biomedical model considers the human body | | | | social integrations nursing programs. |
| chemistry significantly, it is considered as effective | | | | |