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Problems of Screening for Psychiatric Comorbidity in the Medically Ill: What Can be Recommended?

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CL-psychiatrists have to work under severe time pressure in acute care setting. Hence, it is necessary to have an armamentarium of screening tools for disorders most frequently met in the… Click to show full abstract

CL-psychiatrists have to work under severe time pressure in acute care setting. Hence, it is necessary to have an armamentarium of screening tools for disorders most frequently met in the general hospital. This presentation will discuss such tools for delirium, alcohol abuse, depression, personality disorders (“how to manage difficult patients”), attachment styles. On a conceptual level, the so-called “situational approach” in cl-psychiatry will be discussed. Disclosure of interest The author has not supplied his declaration of competing interest.

Keywords: medically ill; problems screening; psychiatric comorbidity; comorbidity medically; ill recommended; screening psychiatric

Journal Title: European Psychiatry
Year Published: 2017

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