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Can the Bio psychosocial model be used as a basis for spiritual healing?

Can the Bio psychosocial model be used as a basis for spiritual healing? In other words, can spiritual healing be based on this model to work effectively? My general thoughts are: - If someone is in a positive environment where people are praying for them, then they should show signs of improvement. - The power of the mind is very powerful Any help would be great, thanks.

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1. The biopsychosocial model is taught to medical students for the last few generations, especially to those that go into family medicine. It basically means to consider the entire patient...not just their disease. Consider their personality, their family, their cultural background and their religious and spiritual beliefs and how this might impact on their understanding of the disease, and any treatment. You are talking about something quite different. First of all, while I use the BPS model in my clinical practice, I'm an atheist myself, so I don't believe that people have souls or spirits. I do however, encourage patients to use whatever resources they have, or they find comforting. The mind is indeed very powerful....that is why so many Alt Med practices may seem to help people sometimes via the placebo response. People "feel" better, but they don't actually "get" better...unless they were going to anyway because it's a self limited illness or goes into remission or regresses to the mean. Prayer or a positive mental attitude make no difference whatsoever in the course of an illness or disease. This is without any doubt as numerous studies have confirmed. There is also some evidence that encouraging people to pray, think positively or do visual imagery may actually be harmful, as when people then don't' get better, they may blame themselves or may be blamed by others for "not trying" hard enough or not believing strongly enough. It's always the last out for the unfalsifiable pseudosciences.