Inpatient rehabilitation diabetes consult service: A rehabilitation psychology approach to assessment and intervention.

Abstract

Rehabilitation psychologists are uniquely positioned to address the functional, psychosocial, and behavioral needs of individuals with diabetes. With further research to assess clinical outcomes, this approach may further address practice recommendations for inpatient diabetes care. Moreover, such a diabetes consultation model may be useful on an outpatient rehabilitation basis as well.

Atención psicológica de personas con diabetes mellitus: una revisión narrativa de las guías de práctica clínica mexicanas

“…Las intervenciones psicológicas postoperatorias tienen los siguientes propósitos: 1) Determinar las necesidades individuales para la adaptación funcional del paciente a su vida diaria; 2) Discutir las preocupaciones y las barreras para el autocuidado y la falta de información; 3) Integrar al paciente en la planeación de su plan de rehabilitación; 4) Implicar a la familia en las consultas y en la educación sobre el autocuidado diabético, y 5) Referir oportunamente a los materiales requeridos para promover la independencia del paciente (Schumann et al, 2010).…”

Time for food - training physiatrists in nutritional prescription

“…Psychologists are routinely part of rehabilitation and of other inter-professional healthcare teams (62)(63)(64)(65)(66)(67)(68), thus physiatrists can also utilize their expertise in helping patients adopt healthier eating patterns. Rehabilitation psychologists have effectively contributed to multiple programmes for disorders that invariably impact on patients' nutrition, e.g.…”

“…In addition to providing a psychological perspective to the physiatrist and other team members, these specialists treat patients directly. Most notably, they can assess the patients' psychosocial functioning (62,67,68), and incorporate adjunctive interventions, such as relaxation and guided imagery (65) and cognitive restructuring (66), to help patients achieve desired goals, such as improving eating behaviours.…”