Integrated Behavioral Health in Primary Care Your Patients Are Waiting /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Gold, Stephanie B. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Green, Larry A. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: General practice (Medicine).; Primary care (Medicine).; Clinical psychology.; General Practice / Family Medicine.; Primary Care Medicine.; Clinical Psychology.

This book provides an evidence-based guide for primary care physicians seeking to integrate behavioral health into their practice. This is grounded in the underlying notion that integrating behavioral health and primary care is not an adjustment to practice but a reconstruction of how primary health...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Defining Integration
• Giving Your Elevator Speech: Frame integration as a necessary paradigm shift to patient-centered, whole-person health care
• Laying the Groundwork: Initialize by defining relationships and protocols up-front, understanding they will evolve
• Developing Your Team: Build inclusive, empowered teams as the foundation for integration
• Leading Change: Develop a change management strategy of continuous evaluation and course-correction
• Determining Your Impact: Use targeted data collection pertinent to integrated care to drive improvement and impart accountability
• Placing Integration into Context
• Success Stories and Next Steps.