Biopsychosocial Approach for Improving the Quality Life of Persons with Mental Illness: A Case Report from India
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Biopsychosocial Approach for Improving the Quality Life of Persons with Mental Illness: A Case Report from India Rajamanikandan Savarimalai . Aarti Jagannathan . Soyuz John . Shanivaram K. Reddy . Dhanashekara Pandian
Received: 13 August 2020 / Accepted: 16 November 2020 Ó Springer Nature India Private Limited 2020
Abstract The quality of life of a person with psychiatric disability is often determined by illness outcomes, personal journey of recovery, coping with the illness, family support, and successful integration into the community. Biopsychosocial factors either hamper or improve the quality of life of a person with psychiatric disability. To depict the usefulness of the biopsychosocial approach of assessment and intervention in improving the quality of life of a patient with mental illness in India. Case study method using the Biopsychosocial approach. Biopsychosocial approach of assessment and intervention helped in understanding the medical and psychosocial circumstances existing in the patient and his family. This helped in providing appropriate interventions such as psychoeducation about the illness, managing patient’s problematic behaviour, improving patient’s functionality, and ensuring regularity in follow up thus eventuating enhanced quality of life. Mental health professionals can use the biopsychosocial approach of assessment and intervention to gain a comprehensive understanding of the patient and his/her community needs and provide appropriate interventions to help improve the quality of life of a patient suffering from psychiatric disability.
R. Savarimalai (&) A. Jagannathan S. John S. K. Reddy D. Pandian National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India e-mail: [email protected]
Keywords Biopsychosocial Mental illness Quality of life Case report
Introduction World Health Organization (WHO) defines the concept of Quality of Life as a complex interplay between the person’s physical health, psychological state, level of independence, social relationships, personal beliefs, and their relationship to the salient features in their environment [1, 2]. The quality of life of a person with psychiatric disability is often determined by the illness outcome, personal journey of recovery and coping with the illness (affected by the values and cultural background), family support, and successful reintegration into the community (for vocation, education, community living, etc.) [3, 4]. In this context, the quality of life of a person with mental illness can be viewed and understood from the perspective of the biopsychosocial framework. This model states that biological, psychological (thoughts, emotions, and behaviours), and social (socio-economical, socioenvironmental, and cultural) factors play a significant role in human functioning [5, 6]. These myriad factors may either hamper or improve the quality of life of a person with psychiatric disability. The bio-psychosocial framework not only helps to assess the quality of life of person
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