| Abstract: | Training in primary care medicine in the past decade has included more attention to the psychosocial issues of patients. With this shift, psychologists have new opportunities to collaborate with medical providers to provide comprehensive health care to medical patients and their families. Systems theory and biopsychosocial medicine provide compatible theories to underpin this collaboration. Suggestions are made for overcoming the considerable barriers to implementation of this model, and examples of creative collaboration are described. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved) |
