Handbook of Evidence-Based Prevention of Behavioral Disorders in Integrated Care (eBook) von William O’Donohue

This handbook is a comprehensive, authoritative and up-to-date source on prevention technologies specifically for  integrated care settings. It  covers general issues related to prevention including the practical issues of financing, and staffing, and a general introduction to the advantages of prevention efforts. It covers a range of behavioral health disorders using an approach that is most relevant to the practitioner: it provides basic definitions, and describes the specific roles of both the primary care provider (PCP) and the behavioral care provider (BCP) as well as specific resources presented in a stepped care model. Stepped care has been used sucessfully in medical settings. Adapted to behavioral health settings, It allows the clinician and the patient to choose treatments that are tailored to specific levels of intensity. This handbook is an interdisciplinary resource useful for classes in integrated care as well as for clinicians employed in in these settings. 

William ODonohue, Ph.D.is a professor of clinical psychology at the University of Nevada, Reno.  He has directed the Victims of Crime Treatment Center there for the past 25 years.  This clinic provides free psychotherapy to child and adult victims of sexual assault and is supported by a grant from the National Institute of Justice.  He received a doctorate from the State University of New York at Stony Brook in 1986. He has published over 80 books and 300 journal articles and book chapters.

Martha Zimmermann,Ph.D. completed her doctoral degree in Psychology at the University of Nevada, Reno in 2021. She earned her B.A. in Psychology and Sociology from the University of Southern California in 2013 and her masters degree from the University of Nevada, Reno in 2017.