Searight (psychology, Lake Superior State U., Michigan) offers a practical guide for mental health professionals entering primary care, and for those who have had professional experience
collaborating with primary care physicians. His first section explains the culture of primary care, which is very different from the culture psychologists are trained for, and indeed very
different from the culture that psychology developed in. The topics there are the patients, physician colleagues, applied epidemiology, brief assessment, and population-oriented intervention.
Then he looks at specific interventions that are suited to the environment, among them brief counseling, motivational interviewing, primary care approaches to psychosocial problems,
problem-solving therapy, and cross-cultural issues. Annotation 穢2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
