Psychosocial services

Identifying and definitional attributes

Metadata item type:Help on this termGlossary Item
METEOR identifier:Help on this term522999
Registration status:Help on this term
  • Health, Standard 08/05/2014
Definition:Help on this term

Psychosocial services are those services which aim to address the ongoing psychological and social needs of individuals. Within the health system services are generally provided to individuals with a disease or disorder, and/or their partners, families or caregivers.

Examples of psychosocial services include:
  • Individual or group based education relating to psychological and social needs
  • The provision of individual or group based counselling
  • Individual peer support or involvement in support groups
  • Spiritual support (such as pastoral care)
  • Other community services (such as domiciliary care)

Relational attributes

Metadata items which use this glossary item:Help on this term
Date of referral to psychosocial services
  • Health, Standard 08/05/2014
Lung cancer (clinical) DSS
  • Health, Superseded 14/05/2015
Lung cancer (clinical) NBPDS
  • Health, Standard 14/05/2015
Person with cancer—date of referral to psychosocial services, DDMMYYYY
  • Health, Standard 08/05/2014
Person with cancer—referral to psychosocial services indicator, yes/no/unknown code N
  • Health, Standard 08/05/2014