Teamwork in psychiatry helps deal with
psychiatric illnesses in a more complete manner.
Through teamwork, illnesses are evaluated
together not only with medical facts but also with
individual, environmental, social and cultural
phenomena. Other than this, the fact that various
people of different professions work together
in teamwork helps increase the success in
treatments. Nowadays, teamwork is applied in
various fields and disciplines due to its benefits.
Particularly in psychiatry, teamwork has been
applied for a long time. Nonetheless, mental
health field and teamwork have become the
focal point of social work application as well. In
this work, the concept of psychiatric teamwork isexamined through the survey and evaluation of
literature. This work examines the concept of
teamwork, the origins of multidisciplinary teamwork,
members of the psychiatric treatment
team, effective teamwork in psychiatry and
social work perspective in psychiatry.
Other ID | JA42NC98AZ |
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Journal Section | Research Article |
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Publication Date | March 1, 2009 |
Submission Date | March 1, 2009 |
Published in Issue | Year 2009 Volume: 17 Issue: 1 |