Integrated Primary and Behavioral Care [recurso electrónico] : Role in Medical Homes and Chronic Disease Management

This timely analysis spotlights the concepts and possibilities of the Patient-Centered Medical Home for bringing mental health and other specialties into primary care. Overview chapters present the Patient-Centered Medical Home model, emphasizing how such systems are organized to solve widespread problems with accessibility, affordability, efficiency, and safety. Practitioner roles, boundaries, and opportunities plus applications are clarified, as well as staffing, financial, and technological challenges. And the section on applications describe care models for special populations, such as comprehensive services to the seriously mentally ill and behavioral services to patients with chronic health conditions. Included in the coverage: * Integrated care and specialty behavioral health care in the patient-centered medical home. * Training the behavioral health workforce for the patient-centered medical home. * The importance of stepped care protocols for the redesign of behavioral health care in patient-centered medical homes. * Depression management in the medical home. * Treating obesity in a primary care setting. * Integrating behavioral health in the pediatric medical home. For health and clinical psychologists, primary care and family physicians, and public health professionals, __Integrated Primary and Behavioral Care__ represents the potential for an excitingnew frontier in primary care reform. This timely analysis spotlights the concepts and possibilities of the Patient-Centered Medical Home for bringing mental health and other specialties into primary care. Overview chapters present the Patient-Centered Medical Home model, emphasizing how such systems are organized to solve widespread problems with accessibility, affordability, efficiency, and safety. Practitioner roles, boundaries, and opportunities plus applications are clarified, as well as staffing, financial, and technological challenges. And the section on applications describe care models for special populations, such as comprehensive services to the seriously mentally ill and behavioral services to patients with chronic health conditions. Included in the coverage: Integrated care and specialty behavioral health care in the patient-centered medical home. Training the behavioral health workforce for the patient-centered medical home. The importance of stepped care protocols for the redesign of behavioral health care in patient-centered medical homes. Depression management in the medical home. Treating obesity in a primary care setting. Integrating behavioral health in the pediatric medical home. For health and clinical psychologists, primary care and family physicians, and public health professionals, Integrated Primary and Behavioral Care represents the potential for an exciting new frontier in primary care reform. This timely analysis spotlights the concepts and possibilities of the patient-centered medical home for bringing behavioral health and other specialties into primary care. Overview chapters present the patient-centered medical home model, emphasizing how such systems are organized to solve widespread problems with accessibility, affordability, efficiency, and safety. Practitioner roles, boundaries, and opportunities plus applications are clarified, as well as staffing, financial, and technological challenges. And the section on applications describe care models for special populations, such as comprehensive services to the seriously mentally ill and behavioral services to patients with chronic health conditions. Included in the coverage: Integrated care and specialty behavioral health care in the patient-centered medical home. Training the behavioral health workforce for the patient-centered medical home. The importance of stepped care protocols for the redesign of behavioral health care in patient-centered medical homes. Depression management in the medical home. Treating obesity in a primary care setting. Integrating behavioral health in the pediatric medical home. For health and clinical psychologists, primary care and family physicians, and public health professionals, Integrated Primary and Behavioral Care represents the potential for an exciting new frontier in primary care reform Front Matter....Pages i-viii Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Patient-Centered Medical Homes: The Promise and the Research Agenda....Pages 3-16 Front Matter....Pages 17-17 Integrated Care and Specialty Behavioral Health Care in the Patient-Centered Medical Home....Pages 19-38 Blending Behaviorists into the Patient-Centered Medical Home....Pages 39-59 Training the Behavioral Health Workforce for the Patient-Centered Medical Home....Pages 61-73 The Patient-Centered Medical Home Model within an Integrated Primary Care System: Towards a European Model?....Pages 75-96 The Importance of Stepped-Care Protocols for the Redesign of Behavioral Health Care in Patient-Centered Medical Homes....Pages 97-114 Planning a Cost-Effectiveness Study....Pages 115-136 Front Matter....Pages 137-137 Depression Management in the Medical Home....Pages 139-155 Treating Obesity in a Primary Care....Pages 157-169 Primary Health–Behavioral Health Integration for the Population of Individuals with Serious Mental Illness....Pages 171-199 Cardiovascular Disease in Patient-Centered Medical Homes: The Trident Approach....Pages 201-225 Integrating Behavioral Health in the Pediatric Medical Home: Expanding Clinical Roles to Improve Access and Outcomes....Pages 227-255 Back Matter....Pages 257-258