Integrated Primary Care Concepts

Catalog description

Integrated Primary Care Concepts reviews models of integrated primary care behavioral health care. These models include Primary Care Behavioral Health, Collaborative Care, and the VA’s Primary Care Mental Health Integration model. Assessment and intervention approaches that are shared across models such as trauma informed care and SBIRT (Screening, Brief Intervention and Refer to Treatment) will be reviewed. The literature supporting the various models and approaches will be reviewed. Students will be introduced to a systemic lens for clinical service provision and practice level implementation of integrated models. There will be significant asynchronous remote work students must complete, including video viewing, interviewing primary care psychologists and primary care medical providers, and, if possible, observation of an integrated primary care site