Nurses, particularly those working in non-psychiatric settings, report that they do not feel adequately prepared to meet the mental health needs of patients. The psychiatric consultation-liaison nursing role has arisen in part, as a response to these difficulties and aims to facilitate access to mental health nursing expertise for general hospital patients and staff. The impact of the introduct...

thinking has aided our understanding of the processes, and contributed to our management of both organically and non-organically induced physical complaints. The interactive and circular nature of the relationship between psyche and soma have been illustrated by Minuchin et al (figure).2 Psychological sequels of both childhood illness and admission to hospital have also been documented.3 The va...

BACKGROUND In the context of health care in Belgium, the psychological or psychiatric opinion of a multidisciplinary team is required in the assessment of bariatric surgery candidates. In clinical practice, a wide variety of liaison psychiatry assessment methods exist. SUBJECTS AND METHODS On the basis of a post-operative psychiatric comorbidity case report and a literature review on "liaison...