Reflecting on reality : psychotherapists at work in primary care / edited by John Launer, Sue Blake, & Dilys Daws.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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This innovative book looks at how psychotherapists can make use of their skills in primary care. It examines how therapists, family physicians and other primary care professionals can all learn from each other through clinical collaboration. Each chapter describes a different practical approach to joint working in a range of primary care settings across the life cycle. Specific topics include services for children and adolescents, working with immigrants and live supervision. Part of the Tavistock Clinic Series.

Introduction -- Child psychotherapist in the baby clinic of a general practice: standing by the weighing scales thirty years on -- Model for a primary-care-based child and family mental health service -- Systemic outreach clinic in primary care: which tier is that? -- Supervision and general practice: towards a reflecting position -- When the patient and family are from somewhere else: narratives of migration in therapy -- Cross-cultural work in the community -- Sure start rapid-response service for parents and their under fours -- Making meaning out of the mess: developing the mental health role of health visitors -- Practice as patient: working as a psychotherapist in general practice -- Bridging the gap: experiences at the interface of primary care and a psychotherapy institution.

SERIES EDITOR'S PREFACE -- ABOUT THE EDITORS AND CONTRIBUTORS -- CHAPTER ONE: Introduction -- CHAPTER TWO: A child psychotherapist in the baby clinic of a general practice:standing by the weighing scales thirty years on -- CHAPTER THREE: A model for a primary-care-based child and family mental health service -- CHAPTER FOUR: A systemic outreach clinic in primary care: which tier is that -- CHAPTER FIVE: Supervision and general practice: towards a reflecting position -- CHAPTER SIX: When the patient and family are from somewhere else: narratives of migration in therapy.

CHAPTER SEVEN: Cross-cultural work in the community -- CHAPTER EIGHT: A Sure Start rapid-response service for parents and their under fours -- CHAPTER NINE: Making meaning out of the mess: developing the mental health role of health visitors -- CHAPTER TEN: The practice as patient:working as a psychotherapist in general practice -- CHAPTER ELEVEN: Bridging the gap: experiences at the interface of primary care and a psychotherapy institution.

English.

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