Psichiatry

The specialty of Psychiatry deals with the diagnosis, treatment and monitoring of mental disorders through technical interventions:

• Interpersonal, like psychotherapy.
• Somatic, like psychopharmacy.

Our team of specialists in Quirónsalud Costa Adeje works on the diagnosis and treatment of psychiatric disorders, from a multidisciplinary perspective, according to the complex nature of mental illness. Understood in its broadest sense, psychiatric activity covers from psychosocial problems of the community, to the rehabilitation and social reintegration of patients, without forgetting the study, diagnosis and treatment of everything understood as illness or psychic abnormality.

Pharmacological treatments protocolized and personalized according to pathology associated or not to Psychotherapy. The term psychotherapy refers to planned and structured interventions that have the objective of influencing behavior, mood and emotional patterns of reaction to various stimuli, through psychological means, verbal and non-verbal. Psychotherapy does not include the use of any biochemical or biological means. Many techniques and approaches, derived from various theoretical foundations, have proven effective in the treatment of different mental and behavioral disorders such as:

• Mood disorders
• Anxiety disorders
• Somatoform disorders
• Dissociative disorders
• Eating disorder
• Adaptive disorders
• Personality disorders: they do not have in general an imperative indication of pharmacological treatment, the psychotherapeutic intervention can be tried in:

Personality disorders of Group A:

• Paranoid
• Schizoid
• Schizotypal

Personality disorders of Group B:

• Limit
• Histrionic
• Narcissistic

Personality disorders of Group C:

• By avoidance
• By dependence
• Obessive compulsive