Psychotherapeutic Approach to the Management of the Severely Injured Patient

In this modern day and age, severe injury has become the dire consequence of an ever-increasing number of motor vehicle, industrial and mining accidents as well as sport-, military- and terror-related incidents that occur. The management of the severely injured patient is mostly directed on an exclu...

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Published in:Psychotherapy and psychosomatics 1990-01, Vol.53 (1/4), p.156-160
Main Author: Badenhorst, J.C.C.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adaptation, Psychological
Combined Modality Therapy
Humans
Multiple Trauma - psychology
Multiple Trauma - rehabilitation
Patient Care Team
Psychotherapy - methods
Sick Role
Social Adjustment
Various Themes Related to Training and Research Papers
Wounds and Injuries - psychology
Wounds and Injuries - rehabilitation
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Summary:In this modern day and age, severe injury has become the dire consequence of an ever-increasing number of motor vehicle, industrial and mining accidents as well as sport-, military- and terror-related incidents that occur. The management of the severely injured patient is mostly directed on an exclusively physical level. Often, very little attention is afforded to the psychosocial factors that prevail following physical trauma. The author describes and discusses how holistic multidisciplinary intervention within the medical milieu facilitates a more psychotherapeutic approach to the management of severely injured patients. This approach facilitates physical recovery and increaeses the rate of readjustment and reintegration into society, of those who have sustained severe injury.
ISSN:0033-3190
1423-0348
DOI:10.1159/000288359