Effective Participation in Team Medicine as a Psychologist : Collaborative Activities in the Dental Field

Abstract

Psychologists are expected to participate in team-based medicine. Some departments and fields have established many collaborative relationships, whereas others such as dentistry have not established many collaborative relationships. The following points are considered important when collaborating with other departments : understanding diseases and problems that need to be dealt with in the collaborating department, clarifying what kind of response can be provided from a professional standpoint, and having specialists in other departments understand the problems they must deal with and identify how to deal with them. In this study, we introduce a collaborative relationship with dentistry as an example.