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Article: Counseling and psychotherapy skills training for family physicians.(Report)
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- Families, Systems & Health
- Article date:
- December 1, 2007
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In many healthcare systems, family physicians are the primary source of direct care for patients with mental health problems in the community, yet family physicians are not often routinely or adequately trained to conduct counseling or psychotherapy. The current study conducted a 5-weekend yearlong, hands-on, interactive, intensive training of family physicians in the skills of office-based counseling/psychotherapy. Fifty-five family physicians took the course over 4 different years. Outcomes were analyzed with 3 major measures and collected at baseline, the end of the course, and 6 months later. Based on an ability to answer a skill-testing questionnaire called the Carkhuff ...