Document Type
Article
Source Publication Title
Psychological Bulletin
First Page
581
Last Page
624
DOI
http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/0033-2909.133.4.581
Abstract
The prevalence and cost of chronic pain is a major physical and mental health care problem in the United States today. As a result, there has been a recent explosion of research on chronic pain, with significant advances in better understanding its etiology, assessment and treatment. The purpose of the present article is to provide a review of the most noteworthy developments in the field. The biopsychosocial model is now widely accepted as the most heuristic approach to chronic pain. With this model in mind, a review of the basic neuroscience processes of pain (the bio part of biopsychosocial), as well as the psychosocial factors is presented. This spans research on how psychological and social factors can interact with brain processes to influence health and illness, to the development of new technologies, such as brain imaging, that provide new insights into brain-pain mechanisms.
Disciplines
Psychology | Social and Behavioral Sciences
Publication Date
7-1-2007
Language
English
License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Share Alike 4.0 International License.
Recommended Citation
Gatchel, Robert J.; Peng, Yuan Bo; Peters, Madelon L.; Fuchs, Perry N.; and Turk, Dennis C., "The Biopsychosocial Approach to Chronic Pain: Scientific Advances and Future Directions" (2007). Psychology Faculty Publications. 15.
https://mavmatrix.uta.edu/psychology_facpubs/15
Comments
This article may not exactly replicate the final version published in the APA journal. It is not the copy of record.
Author's final draft after peer review, also known as a post print.