Tag Archives: biopsychosocial model
ME, CFS & chronic fatigue: three distinct entities requiring complete different approaches
Myalgic Encephalomyelitis, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, and Chronic Fatigue: three distinct entities requiring complete different approaches, by Frank NM Twisk in Current Rheumatology Reports June 2019, 21:27 [https://doi.org/10.1007/s11926-019-0823-z] Letter abstract: Purpose of Review: A recent review implicates that myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME), … Continue reading
The ‘cognitive behavioural model’ of CFS: critique of a flawed model
The ‘Cognitive Behavioural Model’ of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: critique of a flawed model, by Keith Geraghty, Leonard Jason, Madison Sunnquist, David Tuller, Charlotte Blease & Charles Adeniji in Journal of Health Psychology, April 23 2019 Review abstract: Chronic fatigue syndrome/myalgic … Continue reading
Studies on CBT & GET for ME/CFS are misleading, says Swedish prof
Article abstract: There have been a number of studies on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Graded Exercise Therapy (GET) for ME/CFS based on a treatment model where the disease is perpetuated by cognitive processes. Although the studies are flawed and … Continue reading
FITNET trial reporting is misleading
Major charities and individuals have joined WAMES in expressing concern about the nature of the FITNET trial being run by Prof Esther Crawley, the lack of objective analysis in the media coverage and the questionable results from the original Dutch trial. WAMES does … Continue reading
CFS – is the biopsychosocial model responsible for patient dissatisfaction and harm?
Article extracts: In 1977 George Engel wrote about the need for an ‘integrated approach’ in medicine that moved the focus beyond biological mechanisms of disease to include all pertinent aspects of illness presentation, setting out a ‘biopsychosocial model’.1 Around the … Continue reading
Are people with ME disabled?
TIPSFORME blog: Are you Disabled?, by Jenny, 15 April 2016 On Twitter there have been some interesting discussions this week about disability identity and ME. I think this is worth everyone with ME thinking about. For most of us ME is … Continue reading
