Integrating Behavioral and Mental Health Services into the Primary Care Setting

Original Articles Integrating Behavioral Health into Primary Care

Depression is one of the more common diagnoses encountered in primary care, and primary care in turn provides the majority of care for patients with depression. Many approaches have been tried in efforts to improve the outcomes of depression management. This article outlines the partnership between the University of Washington (UW) Neighborhood Clinics and the UW Department of Psychiatry in imp...

Integrating Behavioral Health and Primary Care.

Design: Randomized comparison of full BH integration vs. simple co-location. The intervention includes 1) on-line education for all members of the practice on evidence-based concepts of integrated behavioral health and methods of applying them, 2) a toolkit of tactics to plan for integration, and 3) coaching to support redesign of practice workflow for integration. Implementation of integration...

Integrating primary mental health care and mental health promotion.

Integrating mental health and primary care.

Mental health and primary care delivery systems have evolved to operate differently. For example, attention to multiple medical issues, health maintenance, and structured diagnostic procedures are standard elements of primary care rarely incorporated into mental health care. A multidisciplinary treatment approach, group care, and case management are common features of mental health treatment se...

Mental health care treatment initiation when mental health services are incorporated into primary care practice.

PURPOSE Most primary care patients with mental health issues are identified or treated in primary care rather than the specialty mental health system. Primary care physicians report that their patients do not have access to needed mental health care. When referrals are made to the specialty behavioral or mental health care system, rates of patients who initiate treatment are low. Collaborative ...