ABSTRACT
This chapter explores specific biopsychosocial theories and models that social workers often use to explain and respond to client problems. It looks at how the different structures and processes affect people at different stages of development and how interactions of the environment and these structures and processes can affect the health and well-being of people as they grow and develop. The chapter focuses on the individual and how various problems and processes affect development and behavior on an individual level. It discusses influence social work in general, and they contribute a great deal too clinical social work practice. Social workers may use several models, theories, and perspectives within biopsychosocial dimension, including the medical model, theory of cognitive development, psychodynamic theories, learning theory, and the humanistic perspective. The medical model is a disease-based model that focuses on the symptoms of problems, which can be cured by an expert.
