Practicing Psychology in the Primary Care Setting

This book equips mental health professionals, students, interns, and post-graduate trainees to work effectively in a primary care setting - which today is the principal site for psychiatric care, behavioral health risk reduction, and psychological treatment of physical or functional complaints such as diabetes, hypertension, asthma, fibromyalgia, or irritable bowel syndrome.

The primary care setting has a "culture" that is very distinct from more traditional mental health settings, and so the first part of this book teaches professionals and students about the norms, communication styles, social rituals, and roles they need to be familiar with to be effective psychologists.

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Chapter 1
Introduction to Primary Care Psychology
Chapter 2
The Patients
Chapter 3
The Culture of Primary Care and Your Physician Colleagues
Chapter 4
When You Hear Hoofbeats, Think of Horses - Not Zebras: Applied Epidemiology, Brief Assessment, and
Population-Oriented Intervention
Chapter 5
Brief Counseling for Health Risk Behaviors: The Five ''A''s and FRAMES
Chapter 6
Assessing and Addressing Patient Motivation With the Stages of Change
Chapter 7
Motivational Interviewing: Addressing Ambivalence About Change
Chapter 8
Primary Care Approaches to Psychosocial Problems: BATHE and Other Brief Counseling Techniques
Chapter 9
Brief Cognitive Treatment: Problem-Solving Therapy and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
Chapter 10
Cross-Cultural Issues in Primary Care Psychology: An Overview
Chapter 11
Conclusion: Putting It All Together
References
Index