Overview

Features: Provides guidance on behavioral issues for primary care cliniciansBest available evidence-based, solutions-oriented guide to the patient issues you face dailyClear answers on families with parenting and developmental issues, and children and adolescents with behavioral problemsWays to ease patients' reactions to illness and assist in changing behaviors that prolong, perpetuate, or exacerbate their distressEffective ways to help patients modify behaviors that increase their risk for illness and diseaseUseful, current answers on complex issues such as sexual problems and eating disordersIdentifying and treating cases of abuse and violenceStrategies for caring for patients you find difficult, overcoming patient resistance, and encouraging therapeutic cooperationRealistic guidelines on helping with end-of-life, loss, and grief issuesEvidence-based help with explicit psychological symptoms and syndromes, including anxiety, panic, post-traumatic stress disorder, and somatoform symptomsWhat every clinician needs to know about managing depression as a chronic diseaseTips that can make the partnership between you and your patients more comfortable and easy every day