[Theoretical and practical aspects of position and function of the outpatient department in the sectored psychiatric care system].

After discussion of the sectoring scheme, its advantages and the necessity for its realisation, important tasks of the sectored outpatient department are described. These include the mediating function of the OPD between local authorities and the whole psychiatric care system, concerns of early rehabilitation (Volovik) and psychotherapy, basic organisational and structural conditions of outpatient services, public relation activities, and continued training, co-operation with other authorities the necessary uniting of special outpatient department and psychiatric advisory centre.