title: The challenge of relational diagnoses: applying the biopsychosocial model in DSM-IV. Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry Committee on the Family.
abstract: 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.
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis*; D008954:Models, Biological; D008960:Models, Psychological