Enhancing Your Own Care
INTRODUCTION Print Section Listen In this chapter, we consider 3 issues that can improve your conduct of mental health care: working as a team, referral, and personal awareness. The first…
Personality Disorders
INTRODUCTION Print Section Listen Personality is a complex concept—and an important one: it reflects human beings’ basic psychological infrastructure.1,2 This means that it plays a critical role in determining how…
Psychotic Disorders
INTRODUCTION Print Section Listen We consider psychotic disorders to reside primarily in the domain of psychiatry. But primary care and other medical physicians almost always see these patients at some…
Other Disorders and Issues in Primary Care
INTRODUCTION Print Section Listen In this chapter, we consider some other important mental health issues encountered in medical settings. Recognizing the signs and symptoms of these disorders can prevent misdiagnoses…
The Diagnostic Interview
INTRODUCTION Print Section Listen At this point, it’s time to consider the diagnostic interview. By now you know the major mental disorders you will need to master in medical settings—depression,…
Misuse of Prescription Substances and Other Substances
INTRODUCTION Print Section Listen In this chapter, we address substance use, the final topic for which future clinicians will need considerable mastery in handling mental health problems in medical settings….
Major Depression and Related Disorders
INTRODUCTION Print Section Listen To this point, from Chapters 1, 2, 3, you have learned about the frequent physical symptom presentation of mental health problems in medical settings. And you…
Generalized Anxiety and Related Disorders
INTRODUCTION Print Section Listen Anxiety is a universal, adaptive human experience keeping us alert and safe from danger. It produces our “fight or flight” responses to perceived threats. Anxiety is…
Mental Health Care Model
INTRODUCTION Print Section Listen Let’s summarize where we have been and where this chapter is going. From Chapters 1 and 2, you learned that mental disorders often occur in patients…
Three Axioms of Mental Health Care for Medical Settings
INTRODUCTION Print Section Listen As outlined in the Preface, there are compelling reasons for all clinicians to become familiar with mental and addiction disorders: they provide the vast majority of…
