[Cooperation between pediatrics and child psychiatry in a pediatric hospital; possibilities and limits].

Cooperation between pediatrics and child psychiatry in a children's hospital is becoming more and more important and necessary in dealing with many common problems such as psychological reactions to physical illness, psychosomatic disturbances, physical examination of psychiatric patients, and disorders and retardation of growth and development. The authors describe a cooperative model which has been developed and proved its usefulness during a period of 10 years. This method is an alternative to the traditional referral or consulting system, which involves little real cooperation between the two specialties, and also to excessive penetration of nonmedical psychology into pediatrics.