The challenge of relational diagnoses: applying the biopsychosocial model in DSM-IV. Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry Committee on the Family.
The meaningful application of the biopsychosocial model in psychiatry requires explicit attention to the relational or interpersonal level of functioning. Family-oriented researchers and clinicians recommend that, despite pressures for early publication of DSM-IV, the time has come to give a definitive place to relational syndromes in psychiatric nosology.
D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis*; D008954:Models, Biological; D008960:Models, Psychological