Mental vs. Physical Illness: Diagnosis, Causes, and Treatment
Instead, a newer model that combines both the physical and mental aspects of illness, or the Health Psychology Model, sees that yes, there are differences in symptoms, diagnosis, and care between mental and physical ailments, but that humans are holistic beings and both physical and mental disease affects the other. It is this this holistic continuum that truly defines the new model – the new model focuses on interaction, focuses on holism, and focuses less on simply the cause of disease, but ways to improve the quality of life to prevent disease