What is the biopsychosocial approach to schizophrenia, depression, and cancer?
Schizophrenia: Would examine the interaction of the genetic background of the individual, the person’s thought processes and their actions, and consider environmental factors like socioeconomic status, ethnicity, gender, etc. Depression: Would examine the interaction of the functioning of neurotransmitters (specifically norepinephrine and serotonin), the person’s thought processes/actions (use behavior therapy, try a humanistic approach), and again consider the sociocultural perspective and environmental factors as described. Cancer: Interaction of family history of cancer, less emphasis on the psychological perspective except for counseling, and definitely examine environmental factors (smoking and lung cancer, for instance) Edit: And as always, there is the diathesis-stress model that posits that abnormal behavior problems involve the interaction of a predisposition and a stressful life event/experience. So the stronger the diathesis (predisposition to a particular disorder), the les
