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: A Guide to Integrating Services

Behavioral Consultation and Primary Care

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 and Acceptance Workbook for Depression

The Mindfulness & 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 in Primary Care: A Guide for Primary Care and Behavioral Health Providers

Treating Depression

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: New Strategies for Hard Times

LIving Life Well

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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