Overview
- Provides a guide for how to approach integrating behavioral health into primary care from the practice and team perspective
- Grounded in recent evidence from frontline primary care clinicians integrating care
- Includes considerations for different patient populations, including pediatric and geriatric patients
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
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 care is defined and delivered. While some aspects (billing and financing) will be specific to the policy context in the United States, much of the book will contain universal lessons for an approach to integration from a primary care perspective that may be relevant across the globe.
This guide is organized to follow a comprehensive approach, derived from lessons learned by early adopters of integration. Dividing the book in this manner creates a unique and natural flow from the “why” of integrating care to a step-by-step approach to achieve integration in a practice. The book includes the case for why integrating behavioral health is important; what integration looks like inpractice; and how to transform a practice and grow a team of clinicians to work together to address mental, emotional, and behavioral problems. Each chapter starts with a short preamble to introduce the stage of integration. Each chapter and subchapter would end with a summary box of key messages and a short list of resources (articles, websites, etc) for further information for each topic. Where relevant, chapters additionally include a brief section on application for specific populations (pediatrics, geriatrics, etc).This is an ideal guide for primary care physicians and their medical and administrative teams interested in integrating behavioral health in their practice.
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Stephanie B. Gold, MD is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Colorado School of Medicine and a Scholar at the Eugene S. Farley, Jr. Health Policy Center.
Larry A. Green, MD is a Professor and the Epperson Zorn Chair for Innovation in Family Medicine and Primary Care at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. He has published widely on primary care and behavioral health.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Integrated Behavioral Health in Primary Care
Book Subtitle: Your Patients Are Waiting
Editors: Stephanie B. Gold, Larry A. Green
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-98587-9
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-98586-2Published: 13 November 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-98587-9Published: 01 November 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 249
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations, 30 illustrations in colour
Topics: General Practice / Family Medicine, Primary Care Medicine, Clinical Psychology