Abstract
This review paper gives an overview of the management of somatic symptom disorder. It starts with a description of the clinical problem of patients with persistent bodily distress, discusses classificatory, epidemiological, and etiological issues and then describes the evidence and practical principles of dealing with these patients who are often seen as "difficult" to treat. It is concluded that the best-suited approach is stepped care with close cooperation of primary care, a somatic specialist, and mental health care professionals operating on the basis of a biopsychosocial model of integrating somatic as well as psychosocial determinants of distress and therapeutic factors.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 23-31 |
| Number of pages | 9 |
| Journal | Dialogues in Clinical Neuroscience |
| Volume | 20 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| State | Published - 1 Mar 2018 |
Keywords
- Classification
- Etiology
- Management
- Somatic symptom disorder
- Somatoform disorders
