The Biomedical Model of Mental Health and Competence of Workers

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MENTAL ILLNESS AND
MENTAL HEALTH
RECOVERY
(The biomedical model of mental health and competence of the workers)

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Introduction
The biomedical model of health focuses on specific biological factors by eliminating
social, psychological and environmental influences. It is a leading modern and developed
way for professionals in healthcare to treat and diagnose health issues. The biomedical model
represents the concept of health constitution, which provides freedom from pain, diseases or
any defect. The model mainly focuses on physical process such as pathology, physiology and
biochemistry of any diseases without including social factors and individual subjectivity. The
biomedical model does not appreciate the diagnosis like the biopsychosocial model, which
can impact the patient treatment and can be the reason for negotiation between the patient and
the doctor. The biomedical model concludes that mental disorder is a brain disease and
enhance treatment for pharmacological to clear out the detected biological abnormalities. The
mental health recovery paradigm and the competencies needed by the workers to support
mental health recovery both are related can be represented by the biomedical model. Further,
in this essay, it will be discussed how these two factors are related to the biomedical model
can how it can affect people's life.
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The biomedical model of mental disorder
The biomedical model concludes that mental disorder is a brain disease and enhance
treatment for pharmacological to clear out the detected biological abnormalities. A biological
approach towards science, practice and policy has controlled the healthcare system for more
over three decades. In this time, the medical practice of psychiatric medication has increased
sharply, and mental illness was acknowledged as brain diseases which can happen by
chemical imbalances. It can be corrected with the help of disease-specific drugs. Despite
public trust in conceivable neuroscience for revolution in mental health medication, the
biomedical model time-period has been specified as a huge lack of medical innovation and
low outcomes of mental health (LAKEMAN, 2010).
The paradigm of the biomedical model has mostly affected the clinical psychology
allocating the drug trial adoption in methodology for psychotherapy research. However, this
approach has stimulated the empirically supported the development of psychological
treatments for various kind of mental disorder (Faulkner, 2017). It has ignored the treatment
process, innovation and dissemination for inhibited treatment and differentiated the area
along practitioner lines and scientist. The ignored biopsychosocial model describes an
attractive alternative for the biomedical approach, including public and honest dialogue about
utility and validity of the biomedical paradigm, which is a crucial need.
The Psychosocial Impact of Diagnosis:
There are several problems related to the psychological diagnosis in the level of
professional relationships and community relationships. Due to this, different kinds of fact
such as institutional, psychological services have been allocated by representing the double
bind situation. In that factor, any individual is also responsible for the illness and they have to
take care of that all by themselves. This institutional-led collaborative, dynamic recovery was
represented in a modern, internationally-focused literature review in mental health service.
Several surveys have shown that the lack of involvement of the users in the process of care
planning is the main finding.
Director of National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), Thomas Insel has edited the
article named, “Psychiatry Is Reinventing Itself Thanks to Advances in Biology” on 19th
August 2015. According to this book, it can be said that even there are lots of studies based
on biological markers for mental health problems like schizophrenia and depression, none of

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those has proven for clinal action. Diagnostic categories factors which are biologically valid
and trustable are still long overdue for this field. Mental disorders neither are biologically
accurate nor adequately reliable. There is not a single variable biological factor that can be
useful in treatment or diagnosis of mental disorder and it can be concluded that approach for
biomedical has not turned within the reasonable cost (Hoge et al., 2016). The critical analysis
about the biomedical model and the growth of different approaches for treating and
understanding the mental illness has gained impetus in the United Kingdom. Psychological
Society in British outlines a policy for reforming the disentangles service for mental health by
the biomedical approach. The policy represents the primary distress of the life circumstances
despite the biological disease, exchanged wrong diagnosis with a proper description of the
problems by enhancing tailoring therapy for individual's mental healthcare (Tribe, Freeman,
Livingstone, Stott & Pilling, 2019).
Competencies of workers supported by mental health
Mental health is the most important factor in sustaining a healthy lifestyle.In order to
gain proper mental health, several factors should be considered. Workers, who are facing
daily stress-causing elements in their workplace, their working productivity can be sustained
by the implementation of the biomedical model for maintaining their mental health and to
increase competencies (Kłapciński &Rymaszewska, 2015). According to all healthcare
professionals, healthy workforce enhances the work efficiencies in workers, and it is highly
useful to evolve the work quality. There are several features of competencies of workers:
Skills take time to acquire a healthy workforce
A self-motivated healthy workforce is much need thing that defines a healthy work
environment, and that gives the best possible outcome. To provide health workers, a company
should train its employee in a way that they can able to take work as fun and as well as they
perform their responsibility sincerely (Whitley & Drake, 2010). This takes time to build an
efficient workforce. While in the recovery model, the workers in it require less time to
develop the self-belief which assists them in enhancing the ability to help themselves. This
enhances the people to acquire a healthy workforce within very few times.
Competencies inform recruitment, evaluation and training
To train employees, a company needs an efficient manager, and the manager must
possess good mental health. A mentally strong manager can motivate workers and train those