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Non European organizations
Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine The
US Organization for Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry
Association of Medicine and Psychiatry The Association of Medicine and Psychiatry was founded in 1991 by primary care physicians and psychiatrists interested in improving the health of patients with concurrent physical and psychiatric issues.
International Psycho-Oncology Society (IPOS) Founded in 1984, the International Psycho-Oncology
Society (IPOS) was created to foster international
multidisciplinary communication about clinical, educational
and research issues that relate to the subspecialty
of psycho-oncology and two primary psychosocial dimensions
of cancer:
Miscellaneous
INTERMED Biopsychosocial care needs assessment Cure and care of patients becomes complex when patients have multiple illnesses, specifically a combination of physical and mental disorders. These complex patients have multiple care needs, which often need to be addressed by several caretakers. These patients can be found among patients with chronic physical illnesses, the frail elderly, psychiatric patients with physical disorders, including the somatisers and patients who have physical illnesses and abuse alcohol or drugs. The INTERMED has been developed to assess interdisciplinary health risks and health needs.
Functional disorders are defined as conditions where patients complain about physical symptoms for which no adequate medical explanation can be found. The overall objective is to improve the treatment possibilities for this group of patients. The unit is based on an interdisciplinary approach to functional disorders, as these are to be seen both from a psychiatric /psychological, a somatic, and a social angle. The unit is foremost a research unit focusing on research, development and education. However, the unit does have a secondary clinical function.
American Psychosomatic Society The American Psychosomatic Society is a worldwide community of scholars and clinicians dedicated to the scientific understanding of the interaction of mind, brain, body and social context in promoting health and contributing to the pathogenesis, course and treatment of disease.
To provide and support coordinated and concurrent treatment of the mind and body for patients with comorbid medical and psychiatric disorders.
National Electronic Library for Mental Health Three major gateways to answer your mental health questions on depression, schizophrenia and suicide.
Psychwatch™, Inc. is a multi-media resource that specializes in information services related to the mental health professions.
The Cochrane Collaboration is an international organization that aims to help people make well informed decisions about health care by preparing, maintaining and ensuring the accessibility of systematic reviews of the effects of health care interventions. PubMed, a service of the National Library of Medicine, provides access to over 12 million MEDLINE citations back to the mid-1960's and additional life science journals. PubMed includes links to many sites providing full text articles and other related resources.
Non Medical organizations
American
Psychological Association - Division of Health Psychology
The mission of the Society of Behavioral Medicine
(SBM) is to foster the development and application
of knowledge concerning the interrelationships of health,
illness, and behavior. |