Clinical psychology in a general hospital : conflicts and paradoxes

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dc.contributor.advisorSwartz, Leslieen_ZA
dc.contributor.authorMiller, Tracey Deborahen_ZA
dc.date.accessioned2015-10-14T12:33:33Z
dc.date.available2015-10-14T12:33:33Z
dc.date.issued1988en_ZA
dc.descriptionIncludes bibliography.en_ZA
dc.description.abstractOver the past decade clinical psychologists have increasingly begun to work in general hospital settings, but little published research has dealt in depth with the adjustments and negotiations that need to occur at the interface of clinical psychology and medicine. In this dissertation, the relationship of the psychosocial to medicine and the professional relationships of psychologists and doctors are discussed. Consultation- liaison psychiatry and multidisciplinary treatment teams are presented as two ways in which medicine has attempted to deal with the psychosocial, and which provide potentially useful models of practice for psychologists. Four cases that were referred to the author while working as an intern clinical psychologist in a Neurosurgery unit are discussed in terms of the insight they provide in understanding implicit assumptions about and expectations of psychology. In addition, the head of this Department of Neurosurgery and the two clinical psychologists working in this department were interviewed, and these interviews, together with the cases, provide the material for a discussion of various issues which face clinical psychologists in this unit. These include: the power structures and relationships in the unit; the use of consultation-liaison psychiatry and multidisciplinary treatment team models of practice; the inability of psychologists to fulfil present demands for their services; and the issue of reactive or proactive definition of psychological functions. Finally, some suggestions for enhancing the psychological contribution to patient care in Neurosurgery are made, based on the principles that arise out of the discussion.en_ZA
dc.identifier.apacitationMiller, T. D. (1988). <i>Clinical psychology in a general hospital : conflicts and paradoxes</i>. (Thesis). University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Department of Psychology. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11427/14239en_ZA
dc.identifier.chicagocitationMiller, Tracey Deborah. <i>"Clinical psychology in a general hospital : conflicts and paradoxes."</i> Thesis., University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Department of Psychology, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/14239en_ZA
dc.identifier.citationMiller, T. 1988. Clinical psychology in a general hospital : conflicts and paradoxes. University of Cape Town.en_ZA
dc.identifier.ris TY - Thesis / Dissertation AU - Miller, Tracey Deborah AB - Over the past decade clinical psychologists have increasingly begun to work in general hospital settings, but little published research has dealt in depth with the adjustments and negotiations that need to occur at the interface of clinical psychology and medicine. In this dissertation, the relationship of the psychosocial to medicine and the professional relationships of psychologists and doctors are discussed. Consultation- liaison psychiatry and multidisciplinary treatment teams are presented as two ways in which medicine has attempted to deal with the psychosocial, and which provide potentially useful models of practice for psychologists. Four cases that were referred to the author while working as an intern clinical psychologist in a Neurosurgery unit are discussed in terms of the insight they provide in understanding implicit assumptions about and expectations of psychology. In addition, the head of this Department of Neurosurgery and the two clinical psychologists working in this department were interviewed, and these interviews, together with the cases, provide the material for a discussion of various issues which face clinical psychologists in this unit. These include: the power structures and relationships in the unit; the use of consultation-liaison psychiatry and multidisciplinary treatment team models of practice; the inability of psychologists to fulfil present demands for their services; and the issue of reactive or proactive definition of psychological functions. Finally, some suggestions for enhancing the psychological contribution to patient care in Neurosurgery are made, based on the principles that arise out of the discussion. DA - 1988 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 1988 T1 - Clinical psychology in a general hospital : conflicts and paradoxes TI - Clinical psychology in a general hospital : conflicts and paradoxes UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/14239 ER - en_ZA
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11427/14239
dc.identifier.vancouvercitationMiller TD. Clinical psychology in a general hospital : conflicts and paradoxes. [Thesis]. University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Department of Psychology, 1988 [cited yyyy month dd]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11427/14239en_ZA
dc.language.isoengen_ZA
dc.publisher.departmentDepartment of Psychologyen_ZA
dc.publisher.facultyFaculty of Humanitiesen_ZA
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Cape Town
dc.subject.otherClinical psychologists - South Africaen_ZA
dc.subject.otherClinical psychology - South Africaen_ZA
dc.subject.otherClinical psychologistsen_ZA
dc.titleClinical psychology in a general hospital : conflicts and paradoxesen_ZA
dc.typeMaster Thesis
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