Person Centered Approach to Recovery in Medicine: Insights from Psychosomatic Medicine and Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry

Description of Person Centered Approach to Recovery in Medicine

This book offers a resource to aid in implementing psychosocial screening, assessment, and consequently integrating prevention, care and treatment (i.e. pharmacological, psychosocial rehabilitation and psychotherapeutic) in medicine. It is becoming increasingly recognized that one method of combating spiraling health care costs in developed nations is to integrate psychiatric care into medicine including primary care settings.

This volume reviews the main issues relative to the paradigm of a person-centered and recovery-oriented approach that should imbue all medical areas and specialties. It proposes integration methods in screening and assessment, clinimetric approach, dignity conserving care, cross-cultural and ethical aspects, treatment and training as a basic and mandatory need of a whole psychosomatic approach bridging the several specialties in medicine.

As such, the book addresses a topic that all physicians, including primary care and psychiatric professionals in a wide variety of mental health settings are currently discussing, planning and preoccupied with, namely the task of integrating mental health into all the medical fields, including primary care, cardiology, psychiatry, oncology and so on.

About the Author

Luigi Grassi, M.D.,M.A., is Professor and Chair of Psychiatry, Director of the University Hospital Psychiatry Unit and Dean of the Department of BioMedical and Specialty Surgical Sciences at the University of Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy. Dr. Grassi’s clinical and research interests are in the area of consultation-liaison psychiatry and psychosomatic medicine, psycho-oncology, and psychosocial rehabilitation in psychiatry.

Michelle B. Riba, M.D., MS, DFAPA, FAPM, is clinical professor and Associate Director of the University of Michigan Comprehensive Depression Center, and Director of the PsychOncology Program at the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center.

Thomas Wise, M.D., is Professor of Psychiatry at George Washington University and at the Virginia Commonwealth University as well as Professor of Psychiatry at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. He has working in general medical settings as well as oncology units as a consulting psychiatrist.

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