Yeates S. 'To see or not to see, that is the question' - A commentary on patient Selection for the RANZCP psychotherapy written case.
Australas Psychiatry 2023:10398562231172413. [PMID:
37167961 DOI:
10.1177/10398562231172413]
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Abstract
OBJECTIVE
This paper aims to redress the shortage of published guidance for registrars on selecting suitable patients for the RANZCP Psychotherapy Written Case Summative Assessment.
CONCLUSIONS
This article offers a common-sense approach to patient selection using psychiatric nomenclature and organises patients into proposed categories of likely suitable, possibly suitable, and unsuitable. A flowchart tool is offered for screening patients stressing a Global Assessment of Function (GAF) and the premorbid capacity to adhere to social frames such as school, university, employment, and relationships.
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