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This book provides clinicians, consultants, and healthcare
administrators with a roadmap to establishing a systemic,
patient-centered, family-oriented behavioral health service that is
integrated into a healthcare setting. Healthcare that goes beyond
biomedical issues to address our whole biopsychosocial selves,
produces better outcomes for patients and families. Integrating
behavioral health into medical settings requires an understanding
of the interplay of multiple systemic layers in American
healthcare. The existing literature on integration largely fails to
address the "big picture" of integrated services and systems,
including operations, clinical processes, and financial
sustainability elements. A Systemic Approach to Behavioral
Healthcare Integration summarizes the literature on the
impact of integrating behavioral health care into medical settings,
on the role of families in health maintenance and chronic disease
management, and on team science and applying family systems
theory/relational science to the teams that are now essential to
healthcare.
Psychosocial problems appear within a medical context worldwide,
and are a major burden to health. Psychosomatic Medicine: An
International Primer for the Primary Care Setting takes a uniquely
global approach in laying the foundations of bio psychosocial basic
care (such as recognizing psychosocial and psychosomatic problems,
basic counseling and collaboration with mental health specialists)
and provides relevant information about the most common mental and
psychosomatic problems and disorders. The scope of the book is
intercultural-it addresses global cultures, subcultures living in a
single country and strengthening the care given by physicians
working abroad. This clinically useful book outlines best practices
for diagnosing the most common bio psychosocial problems and
mastering the most common communication challenges (e.g.
doctor-patient conversation, breaking bad news, dealing with
difficult patients, family and health systems communication and
collaboration). Every chapter integrates basic theoretical
background and practical skills and includes trans-culturally
sensitive material, important for work with patients from different
cultures. Psychosomatic Medicine: An International Primer for the
Primary Care Setting serves as an excellent resource for clinicians
hoping to gain and develop knowledge and skills in psychosomatic
medicine.
Now in its fully revised and expanded second edition, this volume
is the definitive global resource on psychosocial problems.
Containing several new chapters and featuring extensively updated
contributions from experts in the field, this title takes a
uniquely global approach in laying the foundations of bio
psychosocial basic care and provides relevant information about the
most common mental and psychosomatic problems and disorders. An
extension of the cultural aspects of the individual clinical
pictures and new contributions from China, Latin America, Russia,
Iran, India, Africa and Myanmar, also about migration and mental
health accompany this revision. This book is divided into four
sections and begins by explaining the relationship between
psychosomatic medicine and primary care. The next part outlines the
best practices for diagnosing the most common biopsychosocial
problems and mastering the most frequent communication challenges
(e.g. biopsychosocial anamnesis, breaking bad news, dealing with
difficult patients, family and health systems communication and
collaboration). The following section delves into more specific
psychosomatic problems such as depressive disorders, posttraumatic
stress disorder, addiction, the terminally ill patient and eating
disorders, among others. The final section focuses on developing
psychosomatic medicine in international settings. Every chapter
integrates basic theoretical background and practical skills and
includes trans-culturally sensitive material, important for work
with patients from different nations. Psychosomatic Medicine: An
International Primer for the Primary Care Setting, second edition
is a must-have reference for doctors from various specialties as
well as nursing staff, social workers and clinical health
psychologists.
The first edition helped bring the family approach to health care
into the medical mainstream. This new edition, like the first,
provides health care professionals with a practical guide to
working with and treating both the individual patient and the
family. Tackling challenging and emerging issues, such as AIDS and
the family, race and gender, child abuse and domestic violence in
addition to pregnancy, child behavior and chronic illness, this
volume is sure to be an indispensable guide for primary care
providers.
In Family Therapy William J. Doherty and Susan H. McDaniel discuss
the history, theory, and practice of this systems-oriented therapy.
There are many different types of family therapy, but at the heart
of each is systems theory, a model that arose from the fields of
biology, physics, chemistry, and cybernetics. The main clinical
precept of family systems theory is that individual problems must
be understood within their larger family and environmental systems,
which often provide the key to successful treatment. Family therapy
provides a way of thinking in systemic, relational terms, and a set
of strategies for intervening with individuals, couples, families,
and other systems. Whether the client is a large family or a single
person, family therapy focuses on changing relational interactions.
In addition to this relationship focus, family therapy considers
biological, environmental, and cultural influences on the client.
Ultimately, this systemic way of thinking - essentially a model for
understanding the complex relations that make up the world - can
help therapists of all orientations in their practice.
Individuals, Families, and the New Era of Genetics: Biopsychosocial
Perspectives brings together state-of-the-science information on
the psychosocial aspects of genetics and genomics from individual
and family dynamic perspectives. Genetic screening, testing, and
treatment for disease will soon be available on a large scale. This
book applies cognitive-behavioral and family systems approaches to
conceptualize how individuals and their families cope with genetic
information. Its authors, all eminent scholars, cover theoretical,
methodological, clinical, legal, and ethical issues involved in
areas such as information processing, decision making, quality of
life, behavior change, and family communication. The book targets a
wide audience, at all stages of professional development, and
establishes a unified individual and family focus for responding to
the psychosocial challenges of the new era of genetics and
genomics.
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