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Integrated Behavioral Health in Primary Care

Your Patients Are Waiting

  • 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)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
  2. Why You Should Read this Book

    • Stephanie B. Gold, Larry A. Green
    Pages 1-9
  3. What Is Integrated Behavioral Health?

    • C. J. Peek
    Pages 11-32
  4. A Real-Life Story in Getting Started: Designing a Foundation

    • R. Scott Hammond, Caitlin Barba
    Pages 33-58
  5. A Real-Life Story in Getting Started: Building from the Ground Up

    • Caitlin Barba, R. Scott Hammond
    Pages 59-102
  6. Everyone Leads

    • Frank Verloin deGruy III, Parinda Khatri
    Pages 103-129
  7. It Takes a Team

    • F. Alexander Blount
    Pages 131-155
  8. Measure What Matters

    • Deborah J. Cohen, Bijal A. Balasubramanian
    Pages 157-175
  9. Where Practice Meets Policy

    • Stephanie R. Kirchner, Stephanie B. Gold, Benjamin F. Miller
    Pages 177-202
  10. Closing: It Is a Journey, Not a Destination

    • Larry A. Green, Stephanie B. Gold
    Pages 203-213
  11. Back Matter

    Pages 215-249

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.

Reviews

“The authors state the audience is practice change facilitators, practice and system administrators, and other healthcare workers seeking to transform their practices. This is a lessons‐learned book from early innovators who have experience integrating the two specialties.” (Vincent F Carr, Doody's Book Reviews, May 10, 2019)

Editors and Affiliations

  • Eugene S. Farley, Jr. Health Policy Center, Aurora, USA

    Stephanie B. Gold, Larry A. Green

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

Buy it now

Buying options

eBook USD 59.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as EPUB and PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Softcover Book USD 79.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Other ways to access