title: [Interdisciplinary ambulatory care in patients with chronic mental disease].
abstract: The experience of an ambulatory treatment for mental chronic outpatients is presented. A trans-disciplinary group (including a psychiatrist, an occupational therapist, a social worker, a nurse, and a psychologist) worked during a 3-year period. Five specific clinics were created: Organic Mental Syndrome, Schizophrenia, Mood Disorders, Neurosis, and Psychoactive Substance Users. Results of the treatment are presented, showing the benefits such a clinical envisioning meant not only for the patients involved but also for their family, the hospital management, and the members of the therapeutic group as well.
authors.affiliation: Salud Mental, Hospital Santa Clara, Bogotá, Colombia.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Rodríguez
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Felizzola
mesh_terms: D000553:Ambulatory Care / Q000458:organization & administration*; D002908:Chronic Disease; D003105:Colombia; D005196:Family Therapy; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000628:therapy*; D010343:Patient Admission; D010348:Patient Care Team
vernacular_title: Atención ambulatoria interdisciplinaria en pacientes con enfermedad mental crónica.