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There is a necessity for clear role definitions in the teaching of community psychiatry to psychiatric residents. Several different roles are described, with an emphasis on the roles of therapist and student, and their sub-roles and role behavior. The difficulties in learning these roles are problems of role expectations, feelings towards the resident, the resident's inexperience and need to grow, and the conflict between the student role (education) and therapist role (service).
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This work was completed while the author was in the Department of Psychiatry, Albany Medical College, Albany, New York. The author would like to thank Alfred Dean, Ph.D., Ronald G. Nathan, M.D., and Raymond Vickers, M.B., B.S., for their comments and criticism on this article.
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Solomon, K. Roles of the psychiatric resident on a community psychiatry team. Psych Quart 54, 67–76 (1982). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01064748
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