Clinical psychology in a medical setting in Sri Lanka

It is my observation that Sri Lankan clinical psychologists, contrary to international standards, can, at times, be prevented from independent practice by psychiatric colleagues. This paper suggests reasons for the sometimes strained relations between clinical psychology and psychiatry and discusses...

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Autor principal: de Zoysa, Piyanjali
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Royal College of Psychiatrists 2013
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Special Paper
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6735101/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31507718
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description It is my observation that Sri Lankan clinical psychologists, contrary to international standards, can, at times, be prevented from independent practice by psychiatric colleagues. This paper suggests reasons for the sometimes strained relations between clinical psychology and psychiatry and discusses the future of the profession in Sri Lanka. An important step would be the establishment of separate departments of clinical psychology in the health system, rather than psychologists being situated within departments of psychiatry.
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spelling pubmed-67351012019-09-10 Clinical psychology in a medical setting in Sri Lanka de Zoysa, Piyanjali Int Psychiatry Special Paper It is my observation that Sri Lankan clinical psychologists, contrary to international standards, can, at times, be prevented from independent practice by psychiatric colleagues. This paper suggests reasons for the sometimes strained relations between clinical psychology and psychiatry and discusses the future of the profession in Sri Lanka. An important step would be the establishment of separate departments of clinical psychology in the health system, rather than psychologists being situated within departments of psychiatry. The Royal College of Psychiatrists 2013-02-01 /pmc/articles/PMC6735101/ /pubmed/31507718 Text en © 2013 The Royal College of Psychiatrists http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Non-Commercial, No Derivatives (CC BY-NC-ND) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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