EAN: 9783319190358

INTEGRATED PRIMARY AND BEHAVIORAL CARE GEBUNDEN

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.

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