This book assembles many of the foremost writers and clinicians in the field of team-based primary care to share their own relational reflections. It features narratives from fields such as integrated behavioral health, integrated primary care, primary care behavioral health, medical family therapy, health psychology, primary care psychology, and clinical social work. The key focus of the chapters are the relationships that are formed during primary care delivery. The book is organized into six core chapters: Family of Origin, Teachers and Mentors, Our Patients and Ourselves, Colleagues and Collaborators, Clinician as Patient, and Death and Loss. Each chapter contains a variety of styles and formats of narrative medicine, including personal reflections, story-telling, and poetry. Connections in the Clinic will be of interest to a wide audience of clinicians and educators dedicated to a reflective or story-telling approach to healing.

The Great Commission is not just for professional clergy; it is a charge to every follower of Christ—ordinary Christians like you and me.Bob Roberts Jr. urges disciples of Jesus to reclaim their role in God’s transforming work around the globe. In Real-Time Connections, Roberts illuminates the ways that Christians from all walks of life can use the everyday associations of their work for the service of God’s kingdom.It’s an ancient idea in a new global reality. The growth and influence of the first Christian communities came from people of every vocation. Today’s global economy offers followers of Jesus opportunities to interact with nations and people groups once accessed only by remote missionaries.Real-Time Connections helps readers shed preconceived notions of what it means to “go into all the world” for Jesus, equipping them with practical guidance and encouraging them with firsthand stories of real people doing just that. Readers can discover their vital role in expanding God’s kingdom around the globe using skills and talents that they already have.

"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.

This book assembles many of the foremost writers and clinicians in the field of team-based primary care to share their own relational reflections. It features narratives from fields such as integrated behavioral health, integrated primary care, primary care behavioral health, medical family therapy, health psychology, primary care psychology, and clinical social work. The key focus of the chapters are the relationships that are formed during primary care delivery. The book is organized into six core chapters: Family of Origin, Teachers and Mentors, Our Patients and Ourselves, Colleagues and Collaborators, Clinician as Patient, and Death and Loss. Each chapter contains a variety of styles and formats of narrative medicine, including personal reflections, story-telling, and poetry. Connections in the Clinic will be of interest to a wide audience of clinicians and educators dedicated to a reflective or story-telling approach to healing.

Aiming to improve quality in health care and diagnoses, the book discusses information processing and communication in medicine and presents a new approach. By object-oriented analysis, modelling and design the approach enables an evolutionary development according to the needs of the medical environment. Following this approach medical applications are realised using a heterogeneous distributed information management system. This system provides integration and communication of multimedia information for medical services. Concepts, architectures and techniques for realisation are introduced. ``...clear overview by Martin Ohly and the contribution on medical terminology in clinical applications by Dr. Paparoditis. The integrated hospital systems developed in the project and the telemedicine services are well described and there is an interesting (...) account of digital signal processing. ... I ended by feeling more positive about the underlying strengths of the work described and admiring the achievement of delivering such a huge and broad-ranging set of demonstrations in clinical practice. The book is an important record of a major contribution in the evolution of health informatics.' - David Ingram, UCL Medical School, London, UK. Journal of Telemedicine and Telecare, volume 2, no. 2, 1996, p. 124 ``Aiming to improve quality in health care and diagnostics, this book discusses information processing and communication in medicine and presents a new approach.' Siemens Review, volume 62, no. 5, September/October 1995, p. 40 Abstracted in Biological Abstracts/RRM, BIOSIS, volume 47, issue 4, April 1994 Covered by Current Contents, Life Sciences (ISI), volume 38, no. 17, April 1995, p. 13-14

During the last two decades, in several branches of science (water waves, crystal growth, travelling waves in one dimensional lattices, splitting of separatrices,...) different problems appeared in which the key point is the computation of exponentially small terms. This self-contained monograph gives new and rigorous mathematical tools which enable a systematic study of such problems. Starting with elementary illuminating examples, the book contains (i) new asymptotical tools for obtaining exponentially small equivalents of oscillatory integrals involving solutions of nonlinear differential equations; (ii) implementation of these tools for solving old open problems of bifurcation theory such as existence of homoclinic connections near resonances in reversible systems.