Social work and liaison psychiatry.
The Liaison Team of the Department of Psychiatry at Cook County Hospital uses a generic, multidisciplinary, crisis intervention approach to mental health consultation to facilitate humane and comprehensive yet cost-effective care for the medically indigent. Social work functions on the team include diagnosis, short-term individual and group treatment, referral, follow-up, staff development, in-service training, program planning, and interdisciplinary clinical instruction.
D006739:Hospital Administration; D006801:Humans; D008603:Mental Health; D010564:Personnel, Hospital / Q000193:education; D011567:Psychiatric Department, Hospital; D012017:Referral and Consultation; D012949:Social Work, Psychiatric