Opieka logopedyczna w przebiegu zaburzeń psychicznych – kwestie teoretyczne
Speech Therapy Care in the Course of Mental Disorders – Theoretical Issues

Summary/Abstract: The article focuses on the theoretical framework of the speech therapy care in various mental illnesses. The Author presents psychiatric disorders which are particularly associated with speech and communication problems, and diversifies the character of speech disorders in psychiatry, indicating that they can oscillate between variously intensified language pathology and different ways of thinking and speaking; as such, they may be permanent or may disappear spontaneously after managing an episode of disease. The study defines the relationship between speech and mental disorders, and lists their short- and long-term effects in mental illnesses. Then it proceeds to discuss the place of a speech therapist in a multidisciplinary team, defines a logopedic diagnosis in the process of a mental disorder, and also indicates other roles of a speech therapist in the broadly understood diagnostic and therapeutic process, e.g. the preventive one. The Author formulates general goals and guidelines for he speech therapy in mental disorders, and discusses these aspects of the treatment which are closely related to the patient and the place of speech therapy care. The article concludes that the position of speech pathologists in psychiatry has a chance to become consolidated, and the conditions which have to be met are: profound description and interpretation of speech disorders in psychiatry, balanced assessment of diagnostic and therapeutic possibilities, cooperation within a multidisciplinary team.

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