Product Description
Behavioral Medicine in Primary Care delivers practical coverage of behavioral and interactional issues that occur between provider and patient in everday clincial practice. You will learn how to deliver bad news, how to conduct an effective patient interview, how to clinically manage behavioral issues in the dying patient, the principles of medical professionalism, behavioral issues in men’s and women’s heatlh, and much more. … More >>
Behavioral Medicine in Primary Care
#1 by Nancy J. Bush Rn on May 15, 2010 - 2:40 pm
Excellent textbook choice for beginning students in health care. Wide range of biobehavioral topics, clinical application with case studies.
Nancy Jo Bush, RN, MN, MA, NP
Assistant Clinical Professor
UCLA School of Nursing
Rating: 5 / 5
#2 by T. Holder on May 15, 2010 - 4:59 pm
I picked up this book for my clinical psychology course at Palmer College of Chiropractic West. It has been a good resource for learning about different ways to deal with all kinds of people that may be coming into the clinic. The book is written in a style that makes it interesting and easy to read. I recommend this book to anyone in the healthcare field looking for information concerning the interview with the patient, working with specific populations (such as geriatrics or pediatrics), health-related behavior (such as Obesity), and mental/behavioral disorders.
Rating: 5 / 5
#3 by Anonymous on May 15, 2010 - 6:09 pm
This book is a wonderful overview of both common and difficult issues in the clinic setting, and very relevant to outpatient practice. It is easy reading, but full of practical tips and up-to-date references. I would recommend it to every primary care resident as an aid in their training.
Rating: 5 / 5
#4 by portledgesteven on May 15, 2010 - 8:06 pm
I teach med students and residents and find that this book is one of the best resources to describe the overlay between behavior and physiology. So many students say “well, that psychology stuff is just intuitive……I know what I’d feel” without recognizing that what they feel isn’t the point – what their patients feel is! This book builds the necessary bridge between intuition and research.
My students express surprise that there IS a science behind behavior and there ARE ways to break bad news to patients and there IS a link between psychology and physiology (perhaps best illustrated by the great flow diagram on stress).
This book summarizes material well and uses good case examples. If I were going to write a book on behavioral science in medicine, this is the book I’d write.
Rating: 4 / 5