Clinical Health Psychology and Primary Care: Practical Advice and Clinical Guidance for Successful Collaboration

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Clinical Health Psychology and Primary Care offers practical guidance on establishing an integrated primary care health psychology practice. The authors describe common medical treatments to help psychologists collaborate in an informed manner with physician colleagues on such common health complaints and diseases as diabetes, hypertension, cardiovascular disease, asthma, obesity, and gastrointestinal disorders. Each chapter also covers the psychosocial and behavioral factors related to the condition, and biopsychosocial strategies that can be used by psychologists to intervene within the context of a primary care appointment. Some chapters can also help psychologists in working with patients to modify such health-compromising behaviors as tobacco use, excessive alcohol or drug use, and physical inactivity, and to help patients cope with chronic or terminal illness. This book will promote health psychology research and clinical practice in the primary care setting for the benefit of both patients and physicians.

This course is designed to help you:

1. Understand how health care providers, such as psychologists, can significantly contribute to the best management of medical patients, and establish themselves as professionals, in the primary care setting;
2. Understand some of the basic medical terms associated with disorders such as hypertension, diabetes mellitus, asthma, etc.;
3. Demonstrate how lifestyle factors, such as inactivity, high-fat diets, tobacco use and high-stress careers, are key contributors to medical ailments for which people commonly seek medical care;
4. Understand why the biopsychosocial approach to medical illness provides the most comprehensive understanding of the etiology, assessment and management of such illnesses; and
5. Understand that coping with chronic illness, as well as compliance with prescribed treatments, are two of the most challenging areas in the field of medicine today.

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