Problems with team treatment in Japan

Although it has been a while since psychiatric team treatment was first advocated as being necessary in Japan, the application of team treatment in practice remains underused. In order to solve the five problems highlighted by the Nurse and Co‐medical Project of the Japanese Association of Psychiatric Hospitals and to put psychiatric team treatment into practice, it is important that professionals in the field of psychiatry have a common understanding of the end concepts and functions of psychiatric team treatment and that they take an involved interest in the compatibility and functional roles of the work done by each profession. It is then important that good psychiatric treatment be constructed around a full complement of competent staff.