Care for cases of somatomorphic disorders in the prison population

Abstract

This study sets out to make a worthwhile contribution to healthcare personnel working in the prison sector by providing theoretical and technical knowledge to enable them to better understand and care for people in prison who suffer from these disorders. As far as we know, the cognitive integration of a descriptive and comprehensive model, bearing in mind a theory of the observed phenomenon acts as an emotionally constraining factor for the anxieties we suffer in the therapeutic relationship with our patients. Consequently we also wish to contribute with this study to improving the emotional resources of personnel working in a context as anxiety-provoking as is a prison, while also pointing out the risks inherent to any theory that might be used to conceal clinical realities Key words: Somatoform Disorders; Mentally ill Persons; Prisons; Hospitals Psychiatric; Symptoms Psychic; Mental HealthAssistance; Psychiatric Somatic Therapies; Behaviour Therapy.