Since the deinstitutionalization of major psychiatric centers, general hospital psychiatry has been playing a more and more important role in providing psychiatric services to the public. But more than providing services to psychiatric patients in general hospital settings, general hospital psychiatry also has many other functions, such as providing consultation-liaison(C-L) services to physical patients with psychiatric comorbidity or psychiatric symptoms due to physical conditions. Many models of C-L services are designed to best fit tasks such as making diagnoses and prescribing pharmaceuticals, helping with physical patients’ distressful emotions, making chemotherapeutic interventions, helping with clinical communications between patients and their doctors, and so on. There is a high prevalence of psychiatric comorbidity in general hospital inpatients of various physical departments. Psychiatric comorbidity results in difficulty in clinical communication, longer hospitalization, worse clinical outcomes, and higher costs. However, psychiatric comorbidities are often neglected and untreated. We believe this phenomenon is caused by complex problems including, but not limited to, insufficient recognition, an insufficient invitation for consultation, the clinical challenge of complex multiple comorbidities, and insufficient treatment.
The goal of this Research Topic is to invite clinicians and researchers to provide new insights and findings that contribute to improvements in the organization of general hospital psychiatry. We welcome the submission of a range of types of manuscripts (research article, brief research article, mini-review, review, case report, opinion, perspective, etc..) focusing on, but not limited to, the following themes:
• How to make clinicians prioritize this the organization of general hospital psychiatry
• What obstacles prevent clinicians from applying for Consultation-Liaison (C-L) services for their patients
• How to reduce stigma and shame feelings from patients so that they will expose their psychologically ill feelings to their doctor
• How to improve or adapt the method of C-L service to different clinical specialties, for example, surgical and non-surgical departments may prefer different styles of C-L service
• How to improve the work quality of general hospital psychiatry in diagnostics and in diagnosing and treating general hospital outpatients and inpatients with psychiatric problems
• How to improve service accessibility to patients
• How to improve collaboration across different departments
• Interaction of common and important issues in psycho-somatic perspectives, such as psycho-cardiac, psycho-immunological, and psycho-endocrinological interactions.
Since the deinstitutionalization of major psychiatric centers, general hospital psychiatry has been playing a more and more important role in providing psychiatric services to the public. But more than providing services to psychiatric patients in general hospital settings, general hospital psychiatry also has many other functions, such as providing consultation-liaison(C-L) services to physical patients with psychiatric comorbidity or psychiatric symptoms due to physical conditions. Many models of C-L services are designed to best fit tasks such as making diagnoses and prescribing pharmaceuticals, helping with physical patients’ distressful emotions, making chemotherapeutic interventions, helping with clinical communications between patients and their doctors, and so on. There is a high prevalence of psychiatric comorbidity in general hospital inpatients of various physical departments. Psychiatric comorbidity results in difficulty in clinical communication, longer hospitalization, worse clinical outcomes, and higher costs. However, psychiatric comorbidities are often neglected and untreated. We believe this phenomenon is caused by complex problems including, but not limited to, insufficient recognition, an insufficient invitation for consultation, the clinical challenge of complex multiple comorbidities, and insufficient treatment.
The goal of this Research Topic is to invite clinicians and researchers to provide new insights and findings that contribute to improvements in the organization of general hospital psychiatry. We welcome the submission of a range of types of manuscripts (research article, brief research article, mini-review, review, case report, opinion, perspective, etc..) focusing on, but not limited to, the following themes:
• How to make clinicians prioritize this the organization of general hospital psychiatry
• What obstacles prevent clinicians from applying for Consultation-Liaison (C-L) services for their patients
• How to reduce stigma and shame feelings from patients so that they will expose their psychologically ill feelings to their doctor
• How to improve or adapt the method of C-L service to different clinical specialties, for example, surgical and non-surgical departments may prefer different styles of C-L service
• How to improve the work quality of general hospital psychiatry in diagnostics and in diagnosing and treating general hospital outpatients and inpatients with psychiatric problems
• How to improve service accessibility to patients
• How to improve collaboration across different departments
• Interaction of common and important issues in psycho-somatic perspectives, such as psycho-cardiac, psycho-immunological, and psycho-endocrinological interactions.
