Abstract
A role of clinical psychologists in a team approach to medical care is important. We reported two cases who improved through a clinical psychologist's approach focusing on drug taking behavior as their main theme during psychotherapy. In both cases, in the first half step of whole treatment courses, the patients found out their own proactive coping together with therapists, and the clinical psychologist respected their proactive behavior. In the next half step, the clinical psychologist tried to focus on patients' drug therapy itself as their topics. Then, patients improved to be able to cope with taking medicine and to make a good doctor-patient relationship. Through our experience of these two case, we considered that clinical psychologists can increase the effect of non-drug factors to build a good doctor-patient relationship. It seems to be important for us to build cooperative relationship with patient and to respect his/her independence. Clinical psychologists can contribute to increase the effect of non-drug factors in drug therapy.
