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Citation
(2010), "Behavioral Medicine in Primary Care – a Global Perspective", International Journal of Health Care Quality Assurance, Vol. 23 No. 1. https://doi.org/10.1108/ijhcqa.2010.06223aae.003
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Copyright © 2010, Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Behavioral Medicine in Primary Care – a Global Perspective
Behavioral Medicine in Primary Care – a Global Perspective
Article Type: Recent publications From: International Journal of Health Care Quality Assurance, Volume 23, Issue 1
Julie M. Schirmer and Alain J. Montegut,Radcliffe Publishing,Oxford,2009,ISBN-10: 1 84619 357 5; ISBN-13: 978 1 84 619357 6
Keywords: Patients
This textbook provides strategies for primary health professionals to apply behavioral medicine principles and concepts. Many behavioral medicine textbooks assume a Western care model, where providers receive behavioral health training and have access to behavioral medicine specialists. However, in many international practice care environments providers receive minimal behavioral medicine training, specialists are unavailable, and patients originate from many cultures and ethnic backgrounds.
Behavioral Medicine in Primary Care recognizes this, enabling physicians, social workers and others unfamiliar with behavioral medicine to meet the mental and behavioral health needs of their patients. Its focus on patients from multiple settings and cultures and its comprehensive, practical format illustrate skills that can be applied immediately wherever care is being provided.
It is aimed at everyone seeing patients for primary healthcare purposes, including physicians, assistant physicians, nurses, midwives, social workers, or healthcare workers in community health sites, private clinics, or in patients’ homes.
Contents include:
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Behavioral medicine: principles and practice.
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Why behavioral medicine in primary care training?
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The mind-body connection: patients with somatic complaints with no organic cause.
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Behavioral change.
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Family systems in behavioral health.
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Social and cultural influences on health.
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The management of common mental health concerns in primary care.
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Psychosocial treatments in primary care.
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Physician and practitioner well-being.
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Developing behavioral medicine in international settings.