psychosocial

psychosocial

English

Etymology

psycho- +‎ social

Pronunciation

• (UK, General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˌsaɪ̯.kəʊ̯ˈsəʊ̯.ʃəl/
• (US, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˌsaɪ̯.koʊ̯ˈsoʊ̯.ʃəl/
• Rhymes: -əʊʃəl

Adjective

psychosocial (not comparable)

1. (of behaviour) Having both psychological and social aspects.
   • 1974, Thomas S. Szasz, M.D., chapter 6, in The Myth of Mental Illness‎, →ISBN, page 102:

     It seems to me that most of those who adhere to an
     organicist position in psychiatry espouse a system of
     values of which they are unaware. They imply that they recognize as
     scientific only physics (and its branches), but instead of
     asserting this, they say that they object to psychosocial the-
     ories only because they are false. [...]

Translations

having both psychological and social aspects

Catalan: psicosocial Czech: psychosociální Danish: psykosocial Finnish: psykososiaalinen French: psychosocial (fr) Irish: síceasóisialta Spanish: psicosocial Swedish: psykosocial (sv)

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French

Etymology

From psycho- +‎ social.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /psi.kɔ.sɔ.sjal/

Adjective

psychosocial (feminine psychosociale, masculine plural psychosociaux, feminine plural psychosociales)

1. psychosocial

Further reading

• “psychosocial”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.