Making Collaborative Connections With Medical Providers

"A helpful primer on collaboration for a wide range of therapists who are considering working closely with primary care physicians. This practical book will help!"--William J. Doherty, PhD, Dept. of Family and Social Sciences, University of Minnesota

This book provides detailed, concrete, and practical information on successful collaborations between physicians and mental health service providers. The authors draw on their experience in working with physicians on referrals in a variety of clinical settings and specialties. Mental health professionals will find important basic skills such as how to present their credentials to medical providers; negotiate through the referral process; follow through after a referral; and report back to physicians on cases. Here is a guidebook for clinical psychologists, family therapists, social workers, and others who want to establish more effective collaborations with medical colleagues.

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This book provides detailed, concrete, and practical information on successful collaborations between physicians and mental health service providers. The authors draw on their experience in working with physicians on referrals in a variety of clinical settings and specialties. Here is a guidebook for clinical psychologists, family therapists, social workers and others who want to establish more effective collaborations with medical colleagues.

Christopher R. Ovide is a consulting psychologist with the American Board of Professional Psychology. He has worked in medical settings and medical education since 1981.

Eric Weiner, PhD, completed a two-year training program in marriage and family therapy from the Menninger Foundation and a doctoral degree from Kansas State University prior to his work in medical education. Dr. Weiner has since been collaborating with family physicians and residents for well over ten years. He has also done similar work with internal medicine residents and staff physicians. As an on-site family therapist in two different residency programs, Dr. Weiner integrated both medical education with residents and direct clinical service to patients in a collaborative format.

L. Kevin Hamberger, PhD, is a Professor of Family and Community Medicine in the Department of Family and Community Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin. Since 1982, he has conducted treatment and research programs with domestically violent men and women, and developed and evaluated health care provider training programs to deliver violence prevention services to patients. Dr. Hamberger is Co-Chair of the Wisconsin Governors Council for Domestic Abuse, and was Chair of the Committee that developed the 1996 Wisconsin Male Batterer Treatment Standards. He presently co-chairs a task force for the Family Violence and Sexual Assault Institute charged with developing professional credentials for providers of intimate partner violence offender services. He is a founding member and past Chair of the Wisconsin Batterer Treatment Provider Association. He has served as a consultant to the National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Mental Health, the National Institute of Justice, the Department of Defense, and the Family Violence Prevention Fund. He is on the editorial boards of four scholarly journals. He is the past Chair of the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine Group on Violence Education and President of the Board of Directors of Womens Horizons domestic abuse shelter in Kenosha, WI. Dr. Hamberger has published approximately 80 articles, chapters, and 5 books, including Treating Men Who Batter: Theories, Programs, and Practice, Domestic Partner Abuse, Violence Issues for Health Care Educators and Providers, and Domestic Violence Screening and Intervention in Medical and Mental Healthcare Settings.