Collaborative Medicine Case Studies

Background -- Introduction -- 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 -- Primary care behavioral health model: applications to prevention, acute care and chronic condition management -- Collaborative approach to somatization -- Improved health status and decreased utilization of an anxious phobic man -- 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 -- 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 -- Integrative approach to treating obesity and comorbid medical disorders -- 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 -- 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 -- Man with chronic back pain and panic attacks: a collaborative multisystem intervention -- Conclusion -- Summary.