"Whole-person healthcare requires attention to more than the strictly medical
aspects of care. Quality clinical care includes expert attention to all of a patient’s
quality of life, including the biological, psychosocial, social, and spiritual domains,
referred to in social work as the biopsychosocial spiritual domains of assessment
that often includes an affective or emotional component.
Historically, the focus on the medical model of care has led to an almost exclusive focus on the physiological
aspects of care. For the multidimensional aspects of the patient experience to be
addressed, the approach must broaden and deepen, with healthcare providers
possessing the training, skills, competency, and confidence necessary to recognize
and attend to strengths, hopes, and distress within each domain."