Editors:
- Uniquely global perspective makes book useful across cultures.
- Written for physicians from various specialties as well as nursing staff, social workers and clinical health psychologists
- Integrative with respect to the underlying theoretical approaches, including systemic therapy, psychodynamic and other approaches to psychosocial medicine
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Table of contents (29 chapters)
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Front Matter
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The First Contact: Basic Interventions
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Front Matter
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Recognition and Treatment of Most Common Clinical Presentations
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About this book
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.
Editors and Affiliations
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Department of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, Center for Mental Health, Medical Center - University of Freiburg Faculty of Medicine, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
Kurt Fritzsche, Michael Wirsching
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Department of Family Medicine, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, USA
Susan H. McDaniel
About the editors
Kurt Fritzsche, MD, Department of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, University Medical Center Freiburg, Germany
Susan McDaniel, PhD, Department of Family Medicine, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester NY
Michael Wirsching MD, Department of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, University Medical Center Freiburg, Germany
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Psychosomatic Medicine
Book Subtitle: An International Guide for the Primary Care Setting
Editors: Kurt Fritzsche, Susan H. McDaniel, Michael Wirsching
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-27080-3
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-27079-7Published: 13 December 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-27082-7Published: 27 December 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-27080-3Published: 30 November 2019
Edition Number: 2
Number of Pages: XXI, 362
Number of Illustrations: 21 b/w illustrations, 8 illustrations in colour
Topics: Primary Care Medicine, Internal Medicine, Psychotherapy, Psychiatry