[Psychosocial care in medicine and the social code V]

Principles of psychosocial care in medical settings are outlined and will be critically compared with those lawful clinical services, which are well-established and described in the amendment on legal health insurance. This comparison reveals conceptual differences between the integrative and interdisciplinary approach of psychosocial care on the one hand, and the conventional approach on the other, which ins presupposed compulsory by the amendment. Arguments in favour of psychosocial care as a legal part of public health insurance should refer to sections section 70 (2), section 112 (2), section 43 (2), section 40 and section 119 of the amendment. Nevertheless these arguments will remain dependent on benevolent consent.