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20 Common Problems in Behavioral Health
Contributor(s): Degruy, Frank Verloin (Author), Dickinson, W. Perry (Author), Staton, Elizabeth W. (Author)
ISBN: 007016438X     ISBN-13: 9780070164383
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
OUR PRICE:   $54.10  
Product Type: Paperback
Published: January 2002
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BISAC Categories:
- Medical | Psychiatry - General
- Medical | Family & General Practice
- Medical | Diseases
Dewey: 616
LCCN: 2002284576
Series: 20 Common Problems
Physical Information: 1.01" H x 7.5" W x 9.25" (1.87 lbs) 500 pages
 
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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