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B M Astrachan

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Emergency physicians' ratings of alcoholism treaters.

The purpose of this study is to identify treaters whom emergency physicians perceive to offer effective treatment of alcoholism. A random sample of 2,500 emergency physicians received a questionnaire comparing attitudes toward Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) and professional alcoholism treaters. Physician agreement on the efficacy of alcoholism treaters was greatest for AA (87%), moderate for mental health professionals (including psychiatrists and psychologists, 55%) and least for physicians and surgeons (excluding psychiatrists, 23%; chi-square = 1,024, p = .000000005, df = 2). Physician education about other alcoholism treaters may be necessary if all types of treatment are to be considered for the emergency room patient.

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A social systems approach to consultation-liaison psychiatry.

Consultation-liaison psychiatry traditionally has emphasized an approach to clinical practice based upon an understanding of the ways in which intrapsychic dynamics, personality characteristics and biological phenomena interact in a process that can be understood to relate to symptoms and disease in the individual. More recently the field has considered the interaction of interpersonal and group phenomena with individual characteristics and their influence upon patient pathology. Currently, however, there is limited understanding of the significance of organizational variables for the work of the consultation-liaison psychiatrist. In this paper, several organizational themes are discussed in terms of social systems theory and the relevance of these themes are applied to case material taken from a year's experience of consultation-liaison in a hemodialysis unit of a general hospital (HUGH).

Adjustment Disorders↗