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It will be necessary to show which social factors directly and significantly affect and exacerbate pain if this approach is to gain acceptance as an important buy mentat 60caps low cost, independent, and equal contributor to the biopsychosocial triad. Important social factors will need to be prop- erly evaluated for their potential to generate new types of treatment or styles of management. On the basis of existing evidence about the effective- ness of the model, it is increasingly clear that an integration of sociocultural factors is essential to achieving positive outcomes, relieving suffering, and diffusing action from the narrow medicalization of pain, in ongoing pro- grams of care. A MODEL OF THE PSYCHOSOCIAL FACTORS IMPLICATED IN THE ETIOLOGY AND MAINTENANCE OF CHRONICALLY PAINFUL ILLNESS Although health professionals who work in pain research and practice have become pioneers in the design and running of smoothly functioning multi- disciplinary teams, it is arguable that when examining the key social influ- ences that affect pain and pain behavior, we have been slow to draw on contributions from the wider range of social science disciplines available, and to extend and apply them to improve our understanding of the pain re- sponse and its management. SOCIAL INFLUENCES ON PAIN RESPONSE 183 the social factors that affect pain, illness, and treatments, with the aim of il- luminating the inherently complex interaction between a pain sufferer and their psychosocial environment. Furthermore, it is not possible to do this properly without taking a multidisciplinary approach but within the per- spective of a different but overlapping set of disciplines. The model developed by Skevington (1995) proposes four levels of un- derstanding that provide a framework within which the social aspects of chronic pain may be better appreciated, and this is shown in Fig. Level 1 defines the individual processes affected by social influences, such as per- ceived bodily sensations. In contrast, Level 2 characterizes salient interper- sonal behaviors, in particular, that person’s relationship with significant others. Level 3 defines group and intergroup behaviors such as group be- liefs, experience, and influences, whereas Level 4 encompasses some of the higher order factors that affect sociopsychological processing, such as health ideology and health politics. Although reductionist, this model aims to understand the processes within each level and the relationships be- tween levels, rather than assuming that each level can be better explained by looking at the level below. The model broadens our conceptualization of chronic pain by removing the individual from his or her social and cultural “black box.

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