Alexander Blount, EdD

Academic Role: Professor

Faculty Appointment(s) In:
   Family Medicine and Community Health

Education University of Massachusetts, Amherst Ed.D. Counseling 1976 Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT B.A. 1967

Current Positions

Director of Behavioral Science, FMCH

Affiliations

Collaborative Family Healthcare Association, Chair

Publications

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

Blount, A., DeGirolamo, S. & Mariani, K.  Training the collaborative care practitioners
    of the future.  Families, Systems & Health.  (In Press).
Blount, A.   Primary care psychology:  Are we there yet? Contemporary
    Psychology. (In Press).
Blount, A.  Integrated Primary Care: Organizing the Evidence.  Families, Systems &
    Health: 21, 121-134, 2003.
Blount, A., Thinking about mind and body for medical psychotherapy:  Toward
    an integration in clinical practice.  Advances in Medical Psychotherapy, 11, 199-
    206. 2002
Trotto, A. (Blount, A., Isaacson, J. H., Rapport, D. J. consulting authors) “Mental health
     referrals and teams.”  Patient Care: August, 1999.
Blount, A.  “Beyond philosophy: Primary care and behavioral health integration.” 
     Behavioral Healthcare Tomorrow, October, 1997.
Blount, A. and Bayona, J.  "Toward a system of integrated primary care," Family
     Systems Medicine, Vol. 12, no. 2, 1994.
Blount, A. "Changing realities in the firm," Journal of Systemic Therapies, Vol. 4, no. 4,
    1986.   
Blount, A. "Organizations: Introduction to an issue," Journal of  Systemic Therapies, Vol.
     4, no. 4, 1986. 
Blount, A. "Strategic therapy and the affective experience of the therapist,"  Journal of
     Systemic Therapies, Vol.1, no. 3, 1982. 

Books and Chapters

Blount, A. (Ed.).  Integrated Primary Care:  The Future of Medical and Mental Health
      Collaboration. New York: W.W. Norton, 1998.
Blount, A. “An Introduction to Integrated Primary Care” in Blount, A. (Ed.).  Integrated
      Primary Care:  The Future of Medical and Mental Health Collaboration. New
      York: W.W. Norton, 1998, 1-43.
Brule', J. F. and Blount, A.   Knowledge Acquisition, New York :  McGraw-Hill, 1989.  
Blount, A. "A little piece of hell:   Indirect therapy with a case of post-traumatic stress," 
       in S. de Shazer (Ed.), Family Therapy: Indirect Methods, New York : Aspen Press,
      1986.  
Blount, A. "Toward a 'systemically' organized mental health center," in Applications of
       Systemic Therapy: The Milan Method, D. Campbell and R. Draper (Eds.), London : 
       Grune & Strattan, 1985.

Biography

Alexander Blount is Professor of Clinical Family Medicine at the University
of Massachusetts Medical School in Worcester, MA and Director of Behavioral
Science in the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health.  He
teaches resident physicians the psychosocial skills of primary care practice
and directs the post-doctoral Fellowship in Primary Care Psychology.  He was
previously Director of the Family Center of the Berkshires in Pittsfield, MA
and a faculty member at the Ackerman Institute for the Family in New York.
He has thirty years experience as a therapist, teacher of physicians and
therapists, administrator and lecturer in the US and abroad.  His books
include Integrated Primary Care: The Future of Medical and Mental Health
Collaboration published by W. W. Norton and Knowledge Acquisition, written
with James Brule', published by McGraw-Hill.  

More information about Dr. Blount can be found by clicking here.

Phone: 774-443-2147
E-mail: Alexander.Blount@umassmemorial.org

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