Family therapy in consultation/liaison psychiatry.
Medicine, in its focus on physical illness, has made significant strides in recent decades. New and sophisticated knowledge of disease and techniques of treatment have contributed to sometimes spectacular progress. However, it has been realized that psychiatry, through its consultation and liaison activities, has a most significant contribution to make. The form and content of consultation/liaison activities have been gradually developing. It is from this developmental standpoint that we present the following information relevant to the fusion of Family Therapy and Psychosomatics.
D005196:Family Therapy / Q000379:methods*; D006746:Hospital Bed Capacity, 500 and over; D006801:Humans; D007396:Internship and Residency; D010414:Pennsylvania; D011567:Psychiatric Department, Hospital