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Dual Role of the Psychiatric Consultant in the Community
VICTOR J. FREEMAN, M.D.
AMA Arch Gen Psychiatry 1959;1(6):561-564.
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Historians are recording the remarkable growth and development of psychiatry as a specialty. As a result of such rapid change, the psychiatrist has been faced with the need to assume greater community responsibility. From the role of psychiatric outpatient clinician, with relatively few patients in his charge, the psychiatrist is being urged to take on roles such as "mental health" director and "mental health" consultant, where potentially the entire local community is involved.
With this rapid expansion of the "mental health" movement into the area of health promotion, communities are discovering that their already overtaxed psychiatric facilities are unable to meet the new demands. Consequently, pressures are placed on the psychiatrist to yield the priority of clinical treatment to psychiatrically nontraditional professional functions.
A recent study of "Role Relations in the Mental Health Professions" suggests that there is an increasing need for psychiatrists to recognize new role
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Author Affiliations
Pittsburgh
Footnotes
Submitted for publication June 29, 1959.
Read at the 115th Annual Meeting of the American Psychiatric Association, Philadelphia, April 27, 1959.
Consultees are those professionals who have requested the consultant’s services.
Used here in the particular sense, rather than in the traditional sense, of not being associated primarily with tissue disease.
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