Summer Update

Hello, colleagues.

I am putting my feet on U.S. soil for the first time in a month today. My trip to Europe included visits with colleagues in Spain, Sweden, Denmark, and attending the Association for Contextual Behavioral Science (ACBS) World Conference IX in Parma, Italy. The presentations at ACBS were there were fantastic, and now seems the perfect time to tell you about a new book. Real Behavior Change in Primary Care: Strategies and Tools for Improving Patient Outcomes and Increasing Provider Satisfaction is now available from New Harbinger, and you may want to take a look at a variety of free downloadable materials from the book.

In addition to describing my book, I want to tell you a little about myself and my co-authors. I am a researcher, writer, and trainer in behavioral health integration and application of behavior change techniques in primary care. I began working with Steve Hayes and Kirk Strosahl in the 1980’s. In 1998, I formed Mountainview Consulting Group with Kirk Strosahl. Our company’s website (behavioral-health-integration.com) has many free downloadable materials for behavioral health providers who work in primary care. Current clients include the United States Air Force Medical Operations Division and the San Francisco Department of Public Health.

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    • Summer Update

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  • Patricia’s Books

    Real Behavior Change in Primary Care

    Real Behavior Change in Primary Care

    Real Behavior Change in Primary Care has two main goals. The book provides health care providers with (1) fast, effective tools for working with both routine and challenging patients, and (2) tools to treat their own frustrations that are leading to burnout at increasingly alarming rates. The book offers a template for providers to use to apply principles of contextual behavioral science (in particular, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy or ACT) and a pocket guide to assist with quick identification of brief techniques tailored to fit the typically short primary care visit.

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    Behavioral Consultation and Primary Care

    Behavioral Consultation and Primary Care: A Guide to Integrating Services

    Behavioral Consultation and Primary Care provides an overview of the primary care behavioral health model of integration. It begins with a review of the literature pertinent to why primary health care needs to be reconfigured. The reader learns about the primary care milieu and the roles and responsibilities of various primary care staff members.

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    The Mindfulness & Acceptance Workbook for Depression

    The Mindfulness and Acceptance Workbook for Depression

    The Mindfulness and Acceptance Workbook for Depression is a self-help book for people who are struggling with symptoms of depression. Unlike the dozens of books that try to help readers “overcome” or “put an end to” depression, this book helps patients use symptoms of depression to jump-start their lives.

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    Treating Depression

    Treating Depression in Primary Care: A Guide for Primary Care and Behavioral Health Providers

    Treating Depression in Primary Care is a guide for primary care providers and behavioral health providers to use to improve care to depressed primary care patients. It provides detailed instructions on how primary care providers and behavioral health providers can work together in an integrated model to improve processes and outcomes with this large group of patients.

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    LIving Life Well

    Living Life Well: New Strategies for Hard Times

    LIving Life WellLiving Life Well is a brief workbook for people who want to improve their quality of life and their ability to work with emotional difficulties. Readers learn seven strategies and apply them to develop more skills. The strategies were tested in a randomized control study with patients with symptoms of depression and found to improve patient’s rates of applying the strategies as well as symptoms of depression.

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