Features: * Provides guidance on behavioral issues for primary care clinicians* Best available evidence-based, solutions-oriented guide to the patient issues you face daily* Clear answers on families with parenting and developmental issues, and children and adolescents with behavioral problems* Ways to ease patients' reactions to illness and assist in changing behaviors that prolong, perpetuate, or exacerbate their distress* Effective ways to help patients modify behaviors that increase their risk for illness and disease* Useful, current answers on complex issues such as sexual problems and eating disorders* Identifying and treating cases of abuse and violence* Strategies for caring for patients you find difficult, overcoming patient resistance, and encouraging therapeutic cooperation* Realistic guidelines on helping with end-of-life, loss, and grief issues* Evidence-based help with explicit psychological symptoms and syndromes, including anxiety, panic, post-traumatic stress disorder, and somatoform symptoms* What every clinician needs to know about managing depression as a chronic disease* Tips that can make the partnership between you and your patients more comfortable and easy every day