20 Common Problems in Behavioral Health

A hands-on guide to managing patients with behavioral problems in the primary care setting. The first chapter addresses family problems and covers biopsychosocial model forms, which are the basis upon which beh avioral problems are best understood in primary care. The rest of the book is best read through the filter of this chapter. The following chapters cover normal life problems stress, illness, changing risky or harmful behaviors, problems within the clinician-patient relationship, and mental disorders and their constituent symptoms.