Description
This book provides guidance on behavioral issues for primary care clinicians. It is the best available evidence-based, solutions-oriented guide to the patient issues you face daily. It provides clear answers on families with parenting and developmental issues, and children and adolescents with behavioral problems. It describes ways to ease patients reactions to illness and assist in changing behaviors that prolong, perpetuate, or exacerbate their distress. It features effective ways to help patients modify behaviors that increase their risk for illness and disease.It provides useful, current answers on complex issues such as sexual problems and eating disorders. Identifying and treating cases of abuse and violence, it offers strategies for caring for patients you find difficult, overcoming patient resistance, and encouraging therapeutic cooperation. It provides realistic guidelines on helping with end-of-life, loss, and grief issues. Evidence-based help with explicit psychological symptoms and syndromes, including anxiety, panic, post-traumatic stress disorder, and somatoform symptoms * What every clinician needs to know about managing depression as a chronic disease. It offers tips that can make the partnership between you and your patients more comfortable and easy every day. The other titles in the “20 Common Problems” series include “Dermatology”, “End of Life”, “Ethics”, “Pediatrics”, “Preventive Health”, “Primary Care”, “Surgery”, “Urology”, and “Women’s Health Care”.
