LibGuides: Year 9&10 Mind Matters: Kit of Wellbeing: Biopsychosocial Model (Psychology)

Biological factors

Biological factors and mental health
Various biological factors and their impact on mental health.

Positive health: connecting well-being with biology
Scientific article exploring links between biology and well-being.

Psychological factors

Psychological factors affecting mental health
Some psychological factors impacting mental health.
How Stress Affects your Health
Chronic stress may also cause disease, either because of changes in your body or the overeating, smoking, and other bad habits people use to cope with stress.
Positive Psychology and Physical Health
Evidence is accumulating that a happy, engaged, and fulfilling psychological and social life is not just a consequence of good health, it is what leads people to live a healthy and long life.

Doctors and scientists alike recognize a relationship between these aspects of our lives – the bodily, the mental, and the social. The “biopsychosocial (BPS) model” emphasizes the interconnection between biological, psychological and socio-environmental factors. When this model is applied to health, it demonstrates the importance of maintaining wellness in all aspects of our lives. It also emphasizes the inseparable relationships between these three factors. When one or more of the trio is disturbed, it can have direct and often negative impacts on the others.

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The Biopsychosocial Model of Health and Wellness

Three Aspects of Health and Healing: The Biopsychosocial Model in Medicine
The biopsychosocial model of wellness and medicine examines how the three aspects – biological, psychological and social – occupy roles in relative health or disease. The BPS model stresses the interconnectedness of these factors.
Understanding the Biopsychosocial Model of Health and Wellness
A biopsychosocial approach to healthcare understands that these systems overlap and interact to impact each individual’s well-being and risk for illness, and understanding these systems can lead to more effective treatment.
Biopsychosocial Model in Action: 12 Tips & Resources

Social Factors

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Social factors impacting mental health
Some of the social factors that can impact mental health.
Emotional Wellbeing: Social Connectedness
High-quality relationships can help people live longer, healthier lives.
Social & emotional wellbeing
Social and emotional wellbeing is the foundation of physical and mental health for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (First Nations) people. It takes a holistic view of health as it recognises that connection to land, sea, culture and spirituality all influence wellbeing. Social, historical and political factors can also affect wellbeing.
Positive psychology: social connectivity and its role within mental health nursing
Science indicates that one of the most effective ways to positively improve our happiness is to develop new connections with the people around us, as well as reaffirming those with people we already know.