Collaborative Medicine Case Studies: Evidence in Practice

by Rodger Kessler

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Author: Rodger Kessler

Publisher: Springer

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ISBN 10: 1441926410
ISBN 13: 978-1441926418

This timely and important work looks at the collaborative health care model for the delivery of mental health care in a primary care setting. This has become the ideal model for the treatment of comorbid medical and psychiatric or psychological disorders.

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"The book is organized into nine parts. … This book contains 36 chapters. … This book can influence medical school training, health care management, primary care practice, and health care funding." (Mary Ann Cook, PsycCRITIQUES, Vol. 54 (1), January, 2009)

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Collaborative Medicine Case Studies

Evidence in Practice

Edited by Rodger Kessler and Dale Stafford, Berlin Family Health, Montpelier, Vermont and Department of Family Medicine University of Vermont College of Medicine

Just as the mind and body collaborate in maintaining one’s health, collaboration between primary and behavioral health care can bring patients more efficacious treatment and better long-term results, from better compliance with or less dependence on medication to more effective use of health care services.

Collaborative Medicine Case Studies shows physicians and mental health practitioners working together across a variety of settings to assess and treat entrenched illnesses, combined physical and psychological conditions (back pain/panic attacks, diabetes/bipolar disorder), and cases that defy straightforward diagnosis. At the same time, the cases reflect the economic and financial realities of contemporary health care.

The cases discussed generate creative solutions using different levels of collaboration depending on patient need and site variables, but all share important similarities: close communication, careful follow-up by physician and behavioral health collaborators, and patients who would not have been treated as effectively without collaborative care. Blending research evidence, clinical insight, welcome humor, and realistic optimism, these cases demonstrate impressive successes, instructive setbacks, and comparative viewpoints while shedding light on the logistical, financial, and training challenges of integrative practice.

A sampling of the three dozen cases:

The head and the brain: migraines, orofacial pain, tinnitus.

Comorbid PTSD and persistent pain.

Individuals and couples with complex medical/emotional problems.

Chronic illnesses: obesity, spina bifida, cardiovascular disease.

A Hmong woman’s post-immigration depression.

A physician with anorexia

Burn patients who keep coming back without treatment success.

Collaborative Medicine Case Studies is a blueprint for a vanguard in care, not only for physicians and psychologists but also for professionals and graduate students in health psychology and health care administration and finance.

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