The family physician and the psychologist in the office together: a response to fragmentation

AUTOR(ES)

Solano, Luigi

FONTE

Radcliffe Publishing Ltd.

RESUMO

It is well known that motives for consulting the family physician, though expressed as physical symptoms, often derive from problems needing a holistic, psychosocial approach. Progressive differentiation between medicine and psychology makes co-operation through referral to the psychologist by the physician quite problematic, in terms of both which patients are referred and the modalities of referral. Acceptance of psychological referral may, in any case, be difficult, due to the social stigma that still surrounds mental distress.

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