Overview
- Provides an overview of the pathways and skills involved in integrating behavioral medicine and primary care medicine
- Offers specific approaches to disease prevention, risk modification, and management
- Addresses effective healthcare integration at the level of the patient, the provider, and the administrative system that undergirds all patient-provider interactions
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Table of contents (17 chapters)
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Behavioral Medicine and Integrated Care: Efficient Delivery of Effective Treatments
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Key Problems in Healthcare Service Delivery
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Key Challenges to Care Integration
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Health Risk and Care Delivery Factors That Are Key to Healthcare Cost Containment
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Step-by-Step Guide to “Doing” Behavioral Health in the Context of Integrated Care
Keywords
- behavioral medicine and integrated care
- patient-centered medical home
- collaborative primary and behavioral healthcare
- holistic healthcare delivery
- evidence-based behavioral medicine
- health management skills
- health-disease continuum
- health promotion and disease prevention
- nutritional disorders in integrated care
- sleep disorders and integrated care
- substance abuse and integrated care
- stress and integrated care
- exercise and integrated care
- behavioral risk factors of disease
- key problems in healthcare service delivery
- behavioral health consultations and referrals
- screening for behavioral health risks
- reducing disease burden
- electronic patient health record
- quality improvement in integrated care
About this book
Among the topics covered:
- The epidemiology of medical diseases and associated behavioral risk factors.
- Providertraining: recognizing the relevance of behavioral medicine and the importance of behavioral health consultations and referrals.
- Screening for behavioral health problems in adult primary care.
- Health care transformation: the electronic health record.
- Meeting the care needs of patients with multiple medical conditions.
- Smoking cessation in the context of integrated care.
This depth of clinical guidance makes Behavioral Medicine and Integrated Care an essential reference for practitioners on all sides of the equation, including health psychologists and other professionals in health promotion, disease prevention, psychotherapy and counseling, and primary care medicine.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Melanie Duckworth, Ph.D is an associate professor and director of psychological services at the University of Nevada, Reno. She received her doctoral degree in clinical psychology at the University of Georgia and completed her pre-doctoral internship and post-doctoral fellowship in behavioral medicine at Brown University School of Medicine. Her clinical and research interests and activities are in the areas of posttraumatic stress and coping consequent to psychological and physical injury.
William T. O'Donohue, Ph.D. is professor and chairman of the Department of Psychology at the University of Nevada, Reno. For the past 16 years Dr. O'Donohue has directed a free clinic supported by a National Institute of Justice grant which assesses and treats sexually abused children. He has published over 70 books, and 150 journal articles and book chapters. He holds advanced degrees both in philosophy and psychology. For the past 14 years, he has been director of a free clinic that treats children who have been sexually abused and adults who have been sexually assaulted.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Behavioral Medicine and Integrated Care
Book Subtitle: Efficient Delivery of Effective Treatments
Editors: Melanie P. Duckworth, William T. O'Donohue
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-93003-9
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-93002-2Published: 30 October 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-06565-2Published: 30 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-93003-9Published: 12 October 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VI, 418
Number of Illustrations: 5 illustrations in colour
Topics: Health Psychology, Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, Psychotherapy and Counseling, Primary Care Medicine