The Psychosomatic Perspective

In 2010, Drs. Lianov and Johnson wrote a commentary which laid the foundation of Lifestyle Medicine Competencies in primary care. The competencies were developed by a group of representatives from primary care medical specialties and other interested medical professional societies to address the identified gap in physicians’ armamentaria: leadership in promoting healthy behaviors as foundational to medical care, disease prevention, and health promotion; knowledge of the evidence that specific lifestyle changes can have a positive effect on patients’ health outcomes; assessment of social, psychological, and biological predispositions of patients’ behaviors and the resulting health outcomes; management skills to assist patients in self-managing health behaviors and lifestyles; use of office and community support to work in interdisciplinary