ISSN Series: | Behavioral Medicine: A Guide for Clinical Practice | Discipline: | Medical Prof | Subject Definition: | Primary Health Care; Behavioral Medicine | NLM Class: | W 84.6 | LC Class: | R726.5 | Abstract: | The goal of Behavioral Medicine is to help practitioners and students understand the interplay between psychological, physical, social and cultural issues of patients. Within its pages readers will find real-world coverage of behavioral and interactional issues that occur between provider and patient in everyday clinical practice. Readers will learn how to deliver bad news, how to conduct an effective patient interview, how to care for patients at the end of life, how to clinically manage common mental and behavioral issues in medical patients, the principles of medical professionalism, motivating behavior change, and much more. |
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