20 Common Problems in Behavioral Health - Brossura

DeGruy, Frank

Brossura

ISBN 10: 007016438X ISBN 13: 9780070164383

Casa editrice: McGraw-Hill Professional, 2008

Riassunto

Features:
* Provides guidance on behavioral issues for primary care clinicians
* Best available evidence-based, solutions-oriented guide to the patient issues you face daily
* Clear answers on families with parenting and developmental issues, and children and adolescents with behavioral problems
* Ways to ease patients¿ reactions to illness and assist in changing behaviors that prolong, perpetuate, or exacerbate their distress
* Effective ways to help patients modify behaviors that increase their risk for illness and disease
* Useful, current answers on complex issues such as sexual problems and eating disorders
* Identifying and treating cases of abuse and violence
* Strategies for caring for patients you find difficult, overcoming patient resistance, and encouraging therapeutic cooperation
* Realistic guidelines on helping with end-of-life, loss, and grief issues
* Evidence-based help with explicit psychological symptoms and syndromes, including anxiety, panic, post-traumatic stress disorder, and somatoform symptoms
* What every clinician needs to know about managing depression as a chronic disease
* Tips that can make the partnership between you and your patients more comfortable and easy every day

Other titles in the 20 Common Problems series include Dermatology, End of Life, Ethics, Pediatrics, Preventive Health, Primary Care, Surgery, Urology, and Women's Health Care.

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Recensione

"This is a well-organized, understandable, and practical book for healthcare practitioners in primary care in addition to being a good reference for specialty physicians. In an era of increasing value placed on mental health, this book is a welcome addition to the current body of literature. In addition, its empathic approach is a valuable tool in helping clinicians understand these very common problems and issues." "5 stars" (Doody's 2002-08-01)

Descrizione del libro

POSITIONING STATEMENT Books in the 20 Common Problems series offer detailed, clinically oriented discussions of the most frequently presenting problems--the ones clinicians are likely to encounter over and over again. MARKET AND PUBLISHING STRATEGY This book is part of the 20 Common Problems series. The purpose of the series is to provide practical, clinical resources for the diagnosis and management of problems commonly encountered by the primary care clinician in office practice. Primary care clinicians are the "front-line" care-givers and care-managers for most of the US population. They need to be well informed on a wide array of complaints and disorders to optimally manage patients and know when to refer for specialist care. The 20 Common Problems series meets the needs of these physicians through its strong clinical emphasis, its problem and solution oriented approach, and its concentration on the most frequently presenting cases. Just as primary care itself cuts across the content areas of many medical and surgical specialties, so the material presented in this book cuts across the medical content areas of primary care. The coverage and organization of the book reflect the authors' belief that clinical medicine is a fundamentally behavioral proposition. Hence, they provide content that bears on every clinical problem. BOOK DESCRIPTION After reading this material, the clinician should be able to recognize the most common behavioral problems and the circumstances that evoke important behavioral responses, and know how to manage these problems. Insofar as possible, recommendations are based on sound evidence. The first chapter addresses family problems and serves notice to the reader that the biopsychosocial model forms the basis of which behavioral problems are best understood in primary care. The rest of the book is best read through the fiter of this chapter. The following chapters cover normal life problems (stress, illness), changing risky or harmful behaviors, problems within the clinician-patient relationship, and mental disorders and their constituent symptoms. KEY FEATURES Information targeted specifically for primary care clinicians Focuses on problems encountered frequently in practice Evidence based recommendations incorporated as much as possible

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• Editore: McGraw-Hill Professional
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• ISBN 10: 007016438X
• ISBN 13: 9780070164383
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 496