{"id":17438,"date":"2023-03-14T17:55:33","date_gmt":"2023-03-14T21:55:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/weeklyrounds\/?p=17438"},"modified":"2023-03-14T17:55:33","modified_gmt":"2023-03-14T21:55:33","slug":"behavioral-medicine-at-cooper-university-health-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/weeklyrounds\/2023\/03\/behavioral-medicine-at-cooper-university-health-care\/","title":{"rendered":"Behavioral Medicine at Cooper University Health Care"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Behavioral Medicine team at Cooper includes health psychologists with specialized training working with medical populations. Our team sees patients who are medically admitted across Cooper departments and floors through the consultation-liaison service and subspecialty inpatient psychologists cover Critical Care, Trauma Surgery, and Emergency Medicine. As acute or chronic illness is often accompanied by stress, the team provides assessments and evidence-based psychotherapeutic interventions to treat changes in mood, anxiety, pain, and sleep related to a patient\u2019s medical status and hospitalization.<\/p>\n

In addition to providing recommendations for the patient to practice strategies to independently manage distress, the Behavioral Medicine team also collaborates with medical teams to make recommendations about how best to communicate and work with patients based on their psychological presentation. Reasons that a member of the Behavioral Health team might consult with a patient include:<\/p>\n