Intervención psicológica en el ámbito hospitalario

Psychological care in the hospital setting represents a highly complex type of intervention including care, teaching, and research activities. It is based on a biopsychosocial consideration of the hospitalized or sick patient, which includes the unique characteristics of the context and the different dynamics inherent to the hospital institution. To carry out their role, clinical psychologists need to know, adapt, and progressively build a common language with all other physicians and healthcare professionals, but without losing the specificity of their own specialty. Including and transmitting the psychosomatic perspective in patient understanding will be a priority objective of psychological intervention. The organizational structure and the place of the psychologist within it, mainly at interconsultation-liaison units, Ana M. López Fuentetaja es psicóloga clínica en el Hospital Universitario 12 de Octubre, Madrid. Odei Iriondo Villaverde es Psicóloga Clínica en el CSMIJ L’Hospitalet de Llobregat – Fund.Orienta. La correspondencia sobre este artículo debe enviarse a los autores al e-mail: alofuen@gmail.com (Ana M. López-Fuentetaja); odei.iriondo@gmail.com (Odei Iriondo). Intervención psicológica en el ámbito hospitalario Psychological intervention in the hospital setting 2 IntervencIón psIcológIca en el ámbIto hospItalarIo Revista Clínica Contemporánea (2019), 10, e1, 1-19 https://doi.org/10.5093/cc2019a2 © 2019 Colegio Oficial de Psicólogos de Madrid ISSN: 1989-9912 together with the available resources and means, will condition the different modalities of intervention and the development of different liaison programs.