Definition of "biopsychosocial" []

• Having biological, psychological and social characteristics (adjective)
• Relating to the biopsychosocial perspective, the idea that the mind and the body are inseparable entities (adjective)

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• "The fellow also participates in activities of the Behavioral Pediatrics training program, also funded by the MCHB, which focuses on morbidity arising from biopsychosocial stressors."
• "Eating disorders are complex, biopsychosocial illnesses."
• "The diagnosis was obvious, the prognosis grave: as the president of the APA put it in 1976, the biopsychosocial model, “carrying psychiatrists on a mission to change the world, had brought the profession to the edge of extinction.”"