CL Psy
CL Psy
CL Psy
Liaison Psychiatry
• Consultation-liaison (C-L) psychiatry as a subspecialty has
been defined as the area of clinical psychiatry that
encompasses clinical, teaching and research activities of
psychiatrists and allied mental health professionals in the
non-psychiatric divisions of a general hospital.
• Consultation” refers to the provision of
expert opinion about the diagnosis and
advice on management regarding a patient's
mental state and behavior at the request of
another health professional.
• Liaison refers to linking up of groups for the
purpose of effective collaboration
• consultation encompass three interlocked
foci i.e., the patient, the consultee, and the
therapeutic team
• teaching,
• administration
• clinical research
• In India the C-L services are mostly in the
line with the consultation model, in which on
receiving a referral from the
physician/surgeon, a psychiatrist evaluates
the patient and psychiatric inputs are
provided.
• Establishing psychiatric signs and symptoms
• establishing the relationship of psychological morbidity and
physical illnes
• confidentiality issues
• humanism in medicine