Download or read book Practicing Psychology in the Primary Care Setting written by H. Russell Searight and published by Hogrefe Publishing GmbH. This book was released on 2010-07-01 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book equips mental health professionals, students, interns, and post-graduate trainees to work effectively in a primary care setting – which today is the principal site for psychiatric care, behavioral health risk reduction, and psychological treatment of physical or functional complaints such as diabetes, hypertension, asthma, fibromyalgia, or irritable bowel syndrome. The primary care setting has a "culture" that is very distinct from more traditional mental health settings, and so the first part of this book teaches professionals and students about the norms, communication styles, social rituals, and roles they need to be familiar with to be effective psychologists.