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Books of Interest Field
Guide to Personality Disorders This book provides a practical, comprehensive, and enjoy-able introduction to DSM-IV personality disorders. Diagnostic, theoretical, and therapeutic principles are covered in the first 2 chapters, providing the reader with a basis for understanding character pathology. Individual chapters focus on each DSM-IV personality disorder, with up to 20 different topics presented. 1999186 pages. Price: $14.95; order no.: F-45 Genograms.
Assessment and Intervention, Second Edition This text, now updated and expanded, provides a standard method for constructing a genogram, doing a genogram interview, and interpreting the results. This book introduces those involved in family treatmentfamily physicians, nurses, social workers, pastoral counselors, and trainees in these fieldsto this essential assessment and intervention tool. 1999234 pages. Price: $17; order no.: G-48 Health
Behavior Change. A Guide for Practitioners Health professionals spend enormous amounts of time talking to patients about how to change behaviors that are po-tentially harmful to their health. This book aims to provide health professionalsdoctors, nurses, midwives, physical therapists, occupational therapists, counselors, dieticianswith a method they can use to help patients make decisions about health behavior change in both hospital and community settings. 1999225 pages. Price: $19; order no.: H-51 Making
Collaborative Connections With Medical Providers. A Guide for Mental Health
Professionals This book provides information on successful collaborations between physicians and mental health providers. The authors draw on their experiences in working with physicians on referrals in a variety of clinical settings and specialties. Mental health pro-fessionals will find important basic skills such as how to: 1) present their credentials to medical providers, 2) negotiate through the referral process, 3) follow through after a referral, and 4) report back to physicians on cases. A guidebook for clinical psychologists, family therapists, social workers, and others who want to establish more effective collaborations with medical colleagues. 1999141 pages. Price: $32.95; order no.: M-100 Primary
Care Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine For primary care providers making mental health diagnoses under managed care, this reference has value comparable with the DSM-III and PDRs. Each chapter focuses on a specific psychiatric disorder and behavioral indicators that predispose or follow medical conditions, especially as they are presented in outpatient settings. Physicians and physicians in training will appreciate the quick-access format, tables, and clear graphs that complement the test structure. Mental health professionals will find this text useful for accessing understandable and comprehensive referral guide-lines for their practices. 1999504 pages. Price: $59.95; order no.: P-78 Resource
Guide for Behavioral Science Educators in Family Medicine This text examines the teaching of specific behavioral science content areas and the educational methods used to transmit this information to resident learners. Major portions of the book are devoted to multiple synopses of behavioral science content taught and methods used in teaching. Other chapters provide the history of the behavioral sciences in medicine and a discussion of the psy-chological theories behind this teaching. The book concludes with an overview of four behavioral science programs, a chapter on evaluation, and a bibliography. This spiral-bound text is of value to those new to the field. Also great for experts who have taught this curriculum for decades and seek to update or enliven their program. 248 pages1999. Price: $25; order no.: R-134 The
Shared Experience of Illness. Stories of Patients, Families, and Their
Therapists This book, a companion to Medical Family Therapy: A Biopsy-chosocial Approach, grew out of the authors' desire to document and learn from that work. Linking the therapist's experience with that of the patient and family opens up a new dimension to the case stories. This book courageously breaks down traditional hierachies and barriers that have separated healthy professionals from patients and their families. Trainees, seasoned clinicians, and lay readers will be deeply moved and inspired by this text. 1997378 pages. Price: $42; order no.: S-82 Surviving
Domestic Violence: Voices of Women Who Broke Free It is hard for health professionals to respond appropriately when patients are victims of domestic abuse. This book's author interviewed hundreds of women across the country who suc-cessfully broke away from an abusive relationship. This book tells the stories of 12 of these women, focusing on what it took for each to leave her abuser and rebuild her life. Breaking away from domestic violence is a complex process. Every woman who has left an abuser, any woman who has yet to leave, and any health professional who wants to understand and support these women, will discover important lessons in this book. 2000224 pages. Softcover. Price: $12; order no.: S-88 Slow
Dance. A Story of Stroke, Love, and Disability A remarkable account of what it means to be paralyzed, speechless, incapable of communication yet fully consciousa 'locked-in' syndrome, as neurologists call itand to struggle back, over the years, to an active and creative life 1998321 pages. Price: $24.95; order no.: S-84
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