Collaborative Medicine Case Studies

Background.- Primary Care Is the De Facto Mental Health System.- Organizing Collaborative Care in Medical Settings.- Planning Care in the Clinical, Operational, and Financial Worlds.- How I Learned About Integrated Care by Failing Miserably: The Deadly Sins of Integration.- Tailoring Collaborative Care to Fit the Need: Two Contrasting Case Studies.- Managing Chronic Pain Through Collaborative Care: Two Patients, Two Programs, Two Dramatically Different Outcomes.- Integrating Mental Health Services into Primary Care: The Hamilton FHT Mental Health Program.- Primary Care Life.- The Primary Care Behavioral Health Model: Applications to Prevention, Acute Care and Chronic Condition Management.- A Collaborative Approach to Somatization.- Improved Health Status and Decreased Utilization of an Anxious Phobic Man.- The Train Wreck: Assessment and Management of a Complex Medical Patient.- Collaborative Medical and Behavioral Health Treatment of Patients with Migraine Headache.- Collaborative Care for an Immigrant Couple.- Assessment and Management of Somatoform and Conversion Symptoms.- Women’s Health.- Chronic Pelvic Pain: A Case for an Interdisciplinary Evaluation and Treatment Approach.- Biobehavioral Management of Hot Flashes in a 48-Year-Old Breast Cancer Survivor.- Preserving a Life and a Career: How a Partnership Between Medicine and Psychology Saved a Physician with Anorexia Nervosa.- Collaborative Care to Heal Gender Relations Across Generations: A Couple of Trainees Watch a Couple of Experts Treat a Couple of Couples.- Specialty Mental Health Care to Medical Patients.- The Complex Orofacial Pain Patient: A Case for Collaboration Between the Orofacial Pain Dentist and the Clinical Health Psychologist.- Integrated Care in a Cardiac Rehabilitation Program: Benefits and Challenges.- Collaborative Treatment in Behavioral Medicine: Treatment of a Young Single Mother with Psoriasis and Generalized Anxiety Disorder.- Hypnotic Amplification–Attenuation Technique for Tinnitus Management.- Chronic Medical Illness.- An Integrative Approach to Treating Obesity and Comorbid Medical Disorders.- A Case of Medically Unexplained Chronic Cough.- Walking the Tightrope Without a Net: Integrated Care for the Patient with Diabetes, Cardiovascular Disease, and Bipolar Disorder…and No Insurance.- Healing Through Relationships: The Impact of Collaborative Care on a Patient with Spina Bifida.- Psychiatric and Comorbid Disorders in Primary Care.- Overcoming Depression in a Strange Land: A Hmong Woman’s Journey in the World of Western Medicine.- Seven Years in a Young Man’s Life: Collaborative Care in Rural Vermont.- Bringing the Family into Focus: Collaborative Inpatient Psychiatric Care.- Pain.- Complexity and Collaboration.- A Bad Situation Made Worse.- Innovations in the Treatment of Comorbid Persistent Pain and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder.- What Goes Up Must Come Down: The Complexity of Managing Chronic Pain and Bipolar Disorder.- Pediatric Burns: They Are Not Always What They Appear.- A Man with Chronic Back Pain and Panic Attacks: A Collaborative Multisystem Intervention.- Conclusion.- Summary.