Engel (1977) Proposed a Biopsychosocial Model (BPSM) That ______

question 3

Multiple Choice

Engel (1977) proposed a biopsychosocial model (BPSM) that ______.

• A) offers an open invitation to health care practitioners to consider psychological and social experience as complementary with the biological condition of the physical body
• B) does not meet the necessary criteria for a scientific model which would be the capability to explain and predict observed phenomena
• C) has provided a rationale, a banner for the role of emotion, thought and behaviour in the study of health and illness
• D) all of these

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