Integrated Primary Care
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At a number of sites around the nation, psychologists are now primary care providers. Called "Integrated Primary Care", Kaiser Permanente of Northern California and The Group Health Cooperative of Puget Sound have been leaders in this new way to deliver healthcare. The following articles address some of the details of these revolutionary changes.
Introduction to Integrated Primary Care
Psychologists as Primary Care Providers: A Paradigm Shift by Daniel Bruns 10/23/98
- Reprinted from the APA publication The Health Psychologist
Why Did Kaiser Change? by Daniel Bruns 11/1/98
The Problem of Somatization by Daniel Bruns
Interviews
The Implementation of Integrated Primary Care at Kaiser Permanente: An Interview with Dr. Roger Johnson 12/12/98
A Physician's View of Integrated Primary Care: An Interview with Dr. Kevin Walsh 12/12/98
A Psychologist's View of Integrated Primary Care: An Interview with Dr. Corinne Giantonnio 12/12/98
Discussion
Kaiser's Redesign of Primary Care: New Roles for Health Psychologists by Steve Tulkin and John Guzman 2/15/99
- A day in the life a primary care psychologist. Reprinted from the APA publication The Health Psychologist
Understanding the Opportunities of Integrated Primary Care by Daniel Bruns and Roger Johnson 2/15/99
- The business rationale of integrated primary care. Reprinted from the APA publication The Health Psychologist
Comments on Integrated Primary Care by Kevin Masters 4/17/99
- Dr. Kevin Masters, Associate Editor of The Health Psychologist, takes a critical look at Integrated Primary Care. Reprinted from the APA publication The Health Psychologist
Medical Treatment, Moral Dilemmas, and Integrated Primary Care by Daniel Bruns 4/17/99
- Integrated Primary Care must grapple with difficult social issues. Reprinted from the APA publication The Health Psychologist
A Response to Dr. Masters by Roger Johnson 6/24/99
- Dr. Johnson of Kaiser-Permanente provides thoughtful responses to questions about Integrated Primary Care raised by Dr. Kevin Masters
A British-American psychologist on core assumptions of managed healthcare and suggestions for clinical program development by Jay Skidmore 6/24/99
- Integrated Primary Care is drawing interest from professionals in Europe and elsewhere. Dr. Skidmore is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist and Head of Specialty for Pain Management at Princess Royal NHS Hospital and King Edward VII Hospital, south of London. He articulates a British point of view.
Books on Integrated Primary Care
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