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The elements of community consultation

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Psychiatrists are involved in both clinical and institutional consultations. Although the tradition of psychiatric consultation for medical patients is well established and adequately described, there are few contributions concerning the conceptual framework for community consultations and few case examples.

In order to provide a framework for conceptualizing consultation work this communication presents an example of a consultation to a community agency and discusses some of the specific elements in community consultation. Thus it may help professionals to practice the science and art of consultation to community agencies.

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  1. Cornell University Medical College, New York, N.Y.

    John A. Talbott M.D. (Associate Professor of Psychiatry, and chief)

  2. Comprehensive Clinical Service, Payne Whitney Psychiatric Clinic, USA

    John A. Talbott M.D. (Associate Professor of Psychiatry, and chief)

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The author, while accepting full responsibility for the ideas expressed in this paper, acknowledges the contributions of his mentors and/or colleagues: Drs. Alan Elkins, John Kehoe, Robert Michels, George Papanek, Matthew Parrish, Anita Ross-Townsend, Jesse Schomer, Jay Schulman, Melvin Weinberg, Ms. Vivian Godbey, and Joan Shapiro, and Messrs Richard Aronson and Stuart Marcus.

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Talbott, J.A. The elements of community consultation. Psych Quart 49, 273–290 (1977). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01065571

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