The clinical psychologist in a health centre: one year's work.
The Livingston integrated health services project is an attempt to provide a fully integrated area health service with special emphasis on developing multidisciplinary community health teams. As part of this experiment a clinical psychologist was appointed to work in general practice. Ninety-four patients with behavioural, emotional, and cognitive problems were referred in the first year (1% of the 10 000 patients registered at the practice). The psychologist thus provided treatment for some patients who would otherwise have been seen by a general practitioner with neither the time nor the training to deal adequately with their problems.
D000293:Adolescent; D000342:Affective Symptoms; D000368:Aged; D002653:Child Behavior Disorders; D003072:Cognition Disorders; D003153:Community Health Services; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011586:Psychology, Clinical; D012017:Referral and Consultation; D012606:Scotland