During our Interview and Counseling class we were introduced to the “Patient-Centered Interview. ”

The older Biomedical model focused on the pathophysiology of a disease caused by an anatomical, biochemical, and/or neurophysiological abnormality from the standard person. So the task was to identify, describe, and determine the cause of the disease and then prevent, manage, and/or cure it. However this model does not take into account symptoms caused by other factors such as the social, psychological, and behavioral aspects of an illness. The Biopsychosocial model can better explain how the same disease can present differently in patients or how a patient can present with no apparent signs can still experience symptoms and physical illness in the absence of a disease. This model accounts for how the biological, psychological, and social characteristics can all attribute to a patients disease. The biopsychosocial model obtains a complete story of the patient’s symptoms along with their disease state, as well as pertinent personal features, their family and social history, their community and much more. In the Patient-Centered Interview every action is done with the patients interest. It allows patients to express what concerns, feeling, and emotions they have along with the symptoms they have. It does not just focus on the symptoms it acknowledges the patient as a whole and creates a biopsychosocial description of the patient.