title: [Role and responsibilities of psychosocial personnel in the pediatric clinic: (II). Psychosocial management means experimenting].
abstract: To prevent possible fragmentation of professional networks, as described in part I, the psychosocial co-worker should be flexible to negotiate his or her role. Therefore main areas of beneficial contributions are described: Ameliorating the context of hospital care (including child-adequate alterations of the physical environment; improving cooperation among the staff; staff-counseling); supportive psychotherapy; educative approaches and programmes; enhancing patient and family members to communicate illness-related issues; and discussing easily omitted aspects of illness among self-help-groups. This description of heterogeneous tasks should remind the (whole group of) psychosocial co-worker(s) that casework is not the only topic, they are good and necessary for, even though these other areas are not very well-established, yet.
authors.affiliation: Abteilung I, Medizinischen Hochschule Hannover.
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Ullrich
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D002908:Chronic Disease / Q000523:psychology / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D006801:Humans; D007400:Interprofessional Relations; D010348:Patient Care Team; D010353:Patient Education as Topic; D012657:Self-Help Groups; D012803:Sick Role; D012931:Social Environment; D012949:Social Work, Psychiatric
vernacular_title: Rolle und Aufgaben psychosozialer Mitarbeiter in der Kinderklinik: (II). Psychosoziale Versorgung heisst Experimentieren.