Psychosomatic medicine

Caring rather than curing

• Caring rather than curing
• Management is more realistic than treatment
• Therapeutic relationship
• Nature of symptoms in psychosomatic context
• Rule out depression and anxiety disorders
• Avoid investigations without indications
• Pharmacotherapy
• Coping skills
• Lifestyle changes

The subspecialty of psychiatry that incorporates clinical service, teaching, and research at the borderland of psychiatry and medicine.

• The subspecialty of psychiatry that incorporates clinical service, teaching, and research at the borderland of psychiatry and medicine.
• Liaison refers to interactions with nonpsychiatrist physicians for teaching psychosocial aspects of medical care.

CL psychiatrist MUST have an extensive clinical understanding of physical/neurological disorders and their relation to abnormal illness behavior.

• CL psychiatrist MUST have an extensive clinical understanding of physical/neurological disorders and their relation to abnormal illness behavior.
• CL psychiatrist MUST have knowledge of psychotherapeutic and psychopharmacological interventions

Liaison psychiatrist may participate in ward rounds and team meetings while addressing the behavioral issues.

• Liaison psychiatrist may participate in ward rounds and team meetings while addressing the behavioral issues.
• Education of nonpsychiatric physicians and health professionals about medical and psychiatric issues
• related to a patient’s illness.
• Liaison services lead to heightened sensitivity by medical staff, which result in earlier detection and more cost-effective management of patients with psychiatric problems.

• MEDICAL ILLNESS

• PSYCHIATRIC ILLNESS

• MEDICAL ILLNESS

• PSYCHIATRIC ILLNESS

• MODELS OF COMORBIDITY

• TREATMENT FOR
• MEDICAL ILLNESS

• PSYCHIATRIC ILLNESS

• TREATMENT FOR
• PSYCHIATRIC ILLNESS

• MEDICAL ILLNESS

• PSYCHIATRIC ILLNESS

• MEDICAL ILLNESS

• SMOKING AND NICOTINE
• DEPENDENCE