Consultative and liaison psychiatry is a sub-discipline within psychiatry and psychotherapy. It provides care for patients who are being treated in acute care hospitals, rehabilitation clinics or nursing homes, and who have mental or psychiatric disorders in addition to an underlying physical disease.
Strictly speaking, consultative psychiatry involves giving diagnostic and therapeutic advice to other non-psychiatric medical disciplines from a psychiatric and psychotherapeutic perspective. Liaison psychiatry describes a psychiatrist's ongoing, integrated and institutionalised collaboration with other staff in a hospital or department that primarily treats patients suffering physical conditions. Liaison psychiatry facilities can be found, for example, in pain clinics, intensive care or transplant units, oncology wards or dialysis departments.
Consultative and liaison psychiatry takes into account and understands the complex interactions of psychological, social and biological factors that jointly determine the course of a disease and its treatment plan. The aim of consultative and liaison psychiatry is to detect and treat mentally ill patients in medical facilities as efficiently as possible. This includes the early detection, prevention, diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders and (if necessary) the referral of patients to psychiatric care services.
Why choose Hirslanden
Consultative and liaison psychiatry is a key specialisation at Hirslanden, the largest private hospital group in Switzerland. Our consultative and liaison psychiatry specialists are renowned for their expertise and many years of experience.
You can expect comfortable rooms and a modern infrastructure as well as the highest standards in medicine and care.
We will help you throughout your entire stay, organising additional services such as translators and interpreters, transport, and overnight hotel stays for you and your relatives, and addressing all your administrative questions.
A personal contact from the Hirslanden International team will take care of your needs from the time that you first contact us to arrange an appointment through to the end of your treatment.
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