“it's a psych issue, not medical!” bridging the gap on the medical floor for patients needing psychiatric treatment

Increasingly, it is being recognized that medical providers and child and adolescent psychiatrists should collaborate to care for patients admitted with mental health needs and that each clinician needs to adapt their traditional clinical skills. The standard of such collaborative relationships is to provide integrated care to maximize the pediatric and mental health caregiver ’s knowledge and abilities, to facilitate alliances with families and to work to overcome constraints within and beyond health care systems.

Source: Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry - September 30, 2019 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Maalobeeka Gangopadhyay, Heather M. Goodman, Roberto J. Ortiz-Aguayo Tags: Clinical Perspectives 79 Source Type: research