Management of psychiatric illness in medically ill individuals requires knowledge of medicine and psychiatry as well as specialized psychotherapeutic techniques. In inpatient settings, challenges to compassionate psychological care are abundant (e.g., decreasing length of stays, severe medical and surgical illnesses,…
Key Points Epidemiology A large segment of the general population will endorse dissociative symptoms in the absence of significant psychopathology, suggesting that these symptoms exist along a spectrum from normal to pathological. Dissociative disorders are most often associated with a…
Key Points Research evidence supports the effectiveness of most psychotherapies. Psychotherapy training during residency includes competency in five basic psychotherapies. Child and adolescent psychotherapy includes more integrative strategies than does adult psychotherapy. All psychotherapies will require greater accountability under proposed…
Key Points Physicians are constantly appraising the coping styles of their patients, and these appraisals dictate both diagnosis and treatment. Though there are multiple definitions of coping, coping with chronic illness is best defined as the behavioral style that patients…