This document discusses the identification and treatment of psychiatric morbidity in medically ill patients. It covers how medical illnesses and drugs can cause psychiatric symptoms like depression, anxiety, and psychosis. It also describes how psychiatric disorders can present with physical symptoms that are not due to organic pathology. The management principles involve considering how the illness may threaten life or cause disability, recognizing potential psychiatric disorders, addressing treatment side effects and prognosis uncertainty, and facilitating expression of illness meaning to develop a therapeutic alliance.
This document discusses the identification and treatment of psychiatric morbidity in medically ill patients. It covers how medical illnesses and drugs can cause psychiatric symptoms like depression, anxiety, and psychosis. It also describes how psychiatric disorders can present with physical symptoms that are not due to organic pathology. The management principles involve considering how the illness may threaten life or cause disability, recognizing potential psychiatric disorders, addressing treatment side effects and prognosis uncertainty, and facilitating expression of illness meaning to develop a therapeutic alliance.
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This document discusses the identification and treatment of psychiatric morbidity in medically ill patients. It covers how medical illnesses and drugs can cause psychiatric symptoms like depression, anxiety, and psychosis. It also describes how psychiatric disorders can present with physical symptoms that are not due to organic pathology. The management principles involve considering how the illness may threaten life or cause disability, recognizing potential psychiatric disorders, addressing treatment side effects and prognosis uncertainty, and facilitating expression of illness meaning to develop a therapeutic alliance.
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