Behavioral medicine in primary care / edited by Mitchell D. Feldman, John F. Christensen.
By: Feldman Mitchell D.
Contributor(s): Feldman, Mitchell D | Christensen, John F.
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TextPublisher: New York ; London : Lange Medical Books/McGraw-Hill, [2003]Copyright date: ℗♭2003Edition: Second edition.Description: xvi, 382 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0071383360; 9780071383363.Subject(s): Medicine and psychology | Clinical psychology | Primary Health Care | Behavioral MedicineDDC classification: 616.89 | Item type | Current location | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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"A Lange medical book."
Previous edition: New York: Appleton & Lange, 1997.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Doctor & patient -- Medical interview -- Empathy -- Giving bad news -- Difficult patient -- Sexual issues and professional development: a challenge for medical education -- Suggestion & hypnosis -- Physician well-being -- Working with specific populations -- Families -- Children -- Adolescents -- Older patients -- Cross-cultural communication -- Lesbian & gay patients -- Women -- Health-related behavior -- Behavior change -- Patient adherence -- Smoking -- Obesity -- Eating disorders -- Alcohol & substance use -- Mental & behavioral disorders -- Depression -- Anxiety -- Somatization -- Personality disorders -- Dementia -- Sleep disorders -- Sexual problems -- Special topics -- Complementary & alternative medicine -- Stress & disease -- Pain -- HIV/AIDS -- Mistakes in medical practice -- Domestic violence -- Chronic illness -- Death & dying.
Authored by nationally recognized experts, this outstanding reference offers essential behavioral insights and practical management strategies that will help clinicians and students build a strong relationship with their patients and ensure that they provide the best possible treatment for medical and psychiatric disorders. No other resource so effectively examines how behavior - from the standpoint of the clinician as well as the patient -- affects treatment decisions and results. Book jacket.
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