Efficaciousness of Consultation Liaison Services in Psychiatry: A Brief Overview

Abstract

Consultation Liaison psychiatry (CLP) can be considered a landmark developmental milestone that has remarkably changed the face of psychiatry practice. With an increasing number of general hospital psychiatric units, mental health issues have been brought much closer to general health care and community. The purpose of the study has to explore about CLP Services in Psychiatry. The literature for this has been searched through electronic databases like Pubmed and Google Scholar as well as through manual searches. CLP has contributed significantly to the growth of the psychiatry and has brought psychiatry very close to the advances in the medicine. Medical students who do a rotation in consultation-liaison psychiatry can learn about different psychiatric manifestations of medical illness and their treatments and about care for medically ill patients who have psychiatric disorders.