Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry

Past Failures and New Opportunities
  • Z. J. Lipowski
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Abstract

Liaison psychiatry has recently become one of the fastest growing areas of special interest within the field of general psychiatry. A major factor in this development has been a decision by the Psychiatry Education Branch of the National Institute of Mental Health to increase funding for the training of psychiatrists in liaison work. In fiscal year 1978, support for liaison programs accounted for one fifth of the total funds at the Branch’s disposal. Since 1974, 272 postresidency fellowships in liaison psychiatry have been funded (J. S. Eaton, personal communication, August 10, 1978). About 80% of the psychiatric residency programs surveyed in 1976 offered some training in consultation-liaison work, although only 10% of the residents’ time was reportedly devoted to such training. Liaison services have been established, or reestablished, in a growing number of teaching general hospitals.

Keywords

Psychiatric Consultation Biopsychosocial Model Mental Health Worker Psychiatric Teaching Past Failure 
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Authors and Affiliations

  • Z. J. Lipowski
    • 1
  1. 1.Clarke Institute of PsychiatryTorontoCanada

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