Practice of Biopsychosocial Medicine in Portugal: Perspectives of Professionals Involved
| Autor: | M. Graça Pereira, Alfonso Alonso Fachado, Thomas E. Smith |
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| Rok vydání: | 2009 |
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Biopsychosocial model
Linguistics and Language Medical education medicine.medical_specialty Referral business.industry Public health education 05 social sciences Language and Linguistics 3. Good health 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine 050902 family studies Multidisciplinary approach Health care medicine Managed care 030212 general & internal medicine Integrative medicine 0509 other social sciences Psychology business General Psychology Qualitative research |
| Zdroj: | The Spanish journal of psychology. 12:217-225 |
| ISSN: | 1988-2904 1138-7416 |
| DOI: | 10.1017/s1138741600001621 |
| Popis: | Although, recently, the biopsychosocial approach has been emphasized in the practice of family medicine, how psychologists and physicians interact in collaborative family health care practice is still emerging in Portugal. This article describes a qualitative study that focused on the understanding of psychologists and family physicians' perceptions of their role and the collaborative approach in health care.A questionnaire gathered information regarding collaboration, referral, training and the practice of biopsychosocial medicine. A content analysis on respondents' discourse was performed. Results show that both physicians and psychologists agree on the importance of the biopsychosocial model and interdisciplinary collaboration. However, they also mentioned several difficulties that have to do with the lack of psychologists working full time in health care centers, lack of communication and different expectancies regarding each other roles in health care delivery.Both physicians and psychologists acknowledge the lack of academic training and consider the need for multidisciplinary teams in their training and practice to improve collaboration and integrative care. Implications for future research and for the practice of biopsychosocial medicine are addressed. |
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