The need for collaboration between psychiatrist and psychologist has long been emphasized. However, there is little consciousness or opportunity for the collaboration in clinical practice. And there is no report of the collaborative practice for a specific case. In this study, we report a case in which a psychiatrist and a psychologist collaborated to treat patient with obsessive-compulsive disorder and her mother, and the symptoms were improved and the mother-child relationship was changed. Psychiatrists shared a framework for therapeutic intervention and distinguishing the roles of medical examination and counseling with the patient and her mother, and psychologists provided counseling based on these frameworks. This method may be useful for collaboration between psychiatrists and psychologists.
Author's abstract
Psychotherapy Using the Systems Approach on a 10th Grade Student with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Improved the Patient's Symptoms and Mother―Child Relationship: Collaboration between a Psychiatrist and a Psychologist at a Psychiatric Clinic
Sou Child and Adolescent Mental Health Clinic
Psychiatria et Neurologia Japonica
123: 254-262, 2021
Accepted in revised form: 24 December 2020.
Accepted in revised form: 24 December 2020.
＜Keywords：collaboration between a psychiatrist and psychologist, systems approach, psychotherapy, obsessive compulsive disorder＞
