Advanced Seminar: Integrated Care

Catalog description

This course provides an overview of the emerging science and practice of integrated care - the provision of behavioral health services in medical settings (and vice versa) through the collaborative, interdisciplinary efforts of mental health and medical practitioners. The course covers the scientific, pragmatic, and humanitarian rationales for integrated care; the conceptual underpinnings of the approach; the application of the concept in various contexts and settings; the role of the behavioral health provider and the critical ingredients of effective communication and collaboration in an interdisciplinary context; the psychosocial treatment methods most suitable to this type of work; and the emergent need to adopt more of an evidence-based/population perspective in healthcare settings.