The ObservatoryYour biopsychosocial map
Map a difficult area of life on three levels, body, thoughts and surroundings, and choose one small step.
How it works
- From the bookWrite
- Choose an areaChooseWrite
- Map three levelsWrite
- See the wholeList
- The small stepChooseWrite
In my twenties I developed severe social anxiety. I tend to describe my life then as a bubble that kept shrinking until one day it burst. Making a phone call or meeting an acquaintance on the street became events with se …
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Why does it work?
The biopsychosocial model (Engel 1977) is an established way of understanding ill health as an interplay between several levels. The mapping exercise itself is a frame for reflection, not a tested treatment in its own right.
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