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Published Online:https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.37.5.490

Patient noncompliance can sabotage the best clinical efforts to provide effective treatment. Psychiatrists consulting in a medical setting can promote patient compliance by using insights from four conceptual models of psychiatry: medical, psychodynamic, behavioral, and social. The authors describe the models and illustrate their clinical application with examples from their work with diabetic patients.

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