| Collaborative Medicine Case Studies: Evidence in Practice 2008 Edition Contributor(s): Kessler, Rodger (Editor), Stafford, Dale (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0387768939 ISBN-13: 9780387768939 Publisher: Springer OUR PRICE: $52.24 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: April 2008 Annotation: This book looks at the collaborative health care model for the delivery of mental health care in a primary care setting. This has become the ideal model for the treatment of comorbid medical and psychiatric or psychological disorders. There is also an increased awareness that pharmacological intervention, the most frequently delivered intervention for psychological disorders, is often of limited effectiveness without concurrent specific psychological intervention. Further, Kessler shows that most psychological care these days is delivered through primary care?patients prefer to receive psychological care in that setting, and if they are referred elsewhere, it becomes less likely that they will follow through. In all, moving mental health care into primary care has been shown to improve both the medical and psychological outcomes, and it requires careful attention to implementation issues, besides evidence-based clinical interventions. The book will include 25-30 case studies, co-written by clinical psychologists and primary care physicians. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Medical | Family & General Practice - Medical | Internal Medicine - Medical | Administration |
| Dewey: 610.696 |
| Physical Information: 1.3" H x 6.4" W x 9.3" (1.75 lbs) 464 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Rodger Kessler and Dale Stafford This book is intended to foster thinking and dialogue about behavioral health clinicians providing psychological treatments as part of medical practice. Since medical sites evaluate and treat more mental health and substance abuse problems than the specialty behavioral health system and because many acute and chronic medical presentations have significant psychological components, on-site collaboration between medicine and behavioral health is a logical, feasible, and important evolution of medical care. The majority of this book is the presentation of medical cases in which psychological dimensions are important components of the problem, or cases that are primarily mental health diagnoses that were treated in primary care or specialty medical settings. The feature common to each of the cases is that they rep- sent some form of collaborative treatment between medicine and behavioral health. Conversations about the issues raised in this volume will hopefully be held by those who participate in providing health care, who do not often think and talk about these issues together. The intended audience is physicians, psychologists, behavioral health providers, health care administrators, health care financers, and health care policy makers. Each has both a role and an impact on patient care and patient outcomes although each has a different perspective on achieving the goal. Because of new clinical advancements and administrative and cost pressures, the goals of medicine have shifted to achieving the right care for patients. |
