Developing Effective Collaboration Between Primary Care and Mental Health Providers

Primary care providers and childhood mental health conditions.

The survey by Rushton, Clark, and Freed1 in this issue of the Journal of the Ambulatory Pediatric Association addresses an important issue in the primary care management of mental conditions in children. For primary care clinicians, the situation for depression in adults has remarkable similarities to that of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in children. It occurs in 5% to 9% of ...

[An experience of collaboration between primary health care and mental health care in La Ribera Department of Health (Valencia, Spain)].

Despite the high prevalence of mental health problems among patients attending primary care, diagnosis and treatment of these disorders remain inadequate. Sound training of primary care physicians in how to manage mental health problems is needed to reduce the health, economic and social impact associated with these disorders. Among other elements, there is a need for cooperation between primar...

Secondary Traumatization in Mental Health Care Providers

Secondary trauma is defined as indirect exposure to trauma through a firsthand account or narrative of a traumatic event. The vivid recounting of trauma by the survivor and the clinician's subsequent cognitive or emotional representation of that event may result in a set of symptoms and reactions that parallel PTSD (e.g., reexperiencing, avoidance and hyperarousal). Secondary traumatization is ...

Mental health screening may prove effective in primary care.

opinions may have been more equivocal than families state! But it would be greatly appreciated if GPs could make the time to obtain and read the Continuing Care criteria, so that they are in a position to give as informed a view as possible regarding this important matter. We have a shared task, to ensure that those who are eligible for the full funding of their care are enabled to obtain this ...

The Role and Functions of Embedded Behavioral Health Providers in VA Primary Care-Mental Health Integration