http://brainblogger.com/2006/06/08/bps-study-career-opportunities/ Topics from multidimensional biopsychosocial perspectives. Fri, 05 Sep 2008 14:30:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 http://brainblogger.com/2006/06/08/bps-study-career-opportunities/#comment-52528 mooreae Sat, 19 May 2007 05:57:35 +0000 http://blog.gnif.org/?p=524#comment-52528 While it is encouraging to know that health psychologists, physical therapists, social workers, etc. are incorporating biopsychosocial principles in their careers, it is simultaneously saddening that the list of careers doing so is so small. I am particularly disturbed that the field of medicine has not, to a large extent, historically incorporated bps principles into its curriculum. Patients are first and foremost people--people whose ailments are frequently complex and systemic in nature. Only when health professionals recognize the multidimensionality and diversity of the nature of human beings can true "health care" be achieved. While it is encouraging to know that health psychologists, physical therapists, social workers, etc. are incorporating biopsychosocial principles in their careers, it is simultaneously saddening that the list of careers doing so is so small. I am particularly disturbed that the field of medicine has not, to a large extent, historically incorporated bps principles into its curriculum. Patients are first and foremost people–people whose ailments are frequently complex and systemic in nature. Only when health professionals recognize the multidimensionality and diversity of the nature of human beings can true “health care” be achieved.

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