Leonard Burgess 
Behavioral Medicine in Primary Care 

The book’Behavioral Medicine: A Guide for Clinical Practice’, provides considerable advances in medical diagnosis and treatment, as wellas changes in the ways in which health care is organized and delivered. The goal of this text is to help practitioners and studentsunderstand the interplay between psychological, physical, social and cultural issues of patients. This book provides real-world coverageof behavioral and interactional issues that occur between provider and patient in everyday clinical practice. From this text we will learnhow to deliver bad news, how to conduct an effective patient interview, how to care for patients at the end of life, how to clinicallymanage common mental and behavioral issues in medical patients, the principles of medical professionalism, motivating behaviorchange, and much more. As the leading text on the subject, this delivers the most definitive, practical overview of the behavioral, clinical, and social contexts of the physician-patient relationship. The book is case based to reinforce learning through real-world examples, focusing on issues that commonly arise in everyday medical practice and training. One of the significant elements of Behavioral Medicine is the recognition that the wellbeing of physicians and other health professionals is critically important to caring for patients. Itprovides insight and information not available anywhere else for those who seek to provide comprehensive high-quality care forpatients. And it does so in a way that acknowledges patients as people who have problems that often go far beyond the reach oftraditional medical care. General internists, hospitalists, family practitioners, pediatricians, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, pharmacists, and other clinicians will find that this book helps them to better understand and care for persons with a wide variety ofmental and behavioral problems. For residents and students in health care settings, this can function as a valuable resource forunderstanding the psychosocial dimensions of medicine.