Tools for Getting Started -- How to Determine the Need: A Readiness Assessment System -- What Administrators Should Know About the Primary Care Setting -- Financial Models for Integrated Behavioral Health Care -- Essential Competencies of Medical Personnel in Integrated Care Settings -- Integrated Care: Whom to Hire and How to Train -- Effective Consultative Liaison in Primary Care -- Cultural Competency in the Primary Care Setting -- The Primary Care Consultant Toolkit: Tools for Behavioral Medicine Training for PCPs in Integrated Care -- Quality Improvement in the Integrated Health Care Setting -- Behavioral Screening in Adult Primary Care -- Toolbox for Integrated Consultation-Liaison Services: Guidelines and Handouts -- The Primary Care Consultant Toolkit: Tools for Behavioral Medicine -- Assessment and Treatment of Anxiety in Primary Care -- Assessing and Managing Chronic Pain in the Primary Care Setting -- Promoting Treatment Adherence Using Motivational Interviewing: Guidelines and Tools -- Diabetes – Guidelines and Handouts -- Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder in Primary Care -- Behavioral Health Consultation for Coronary Heart Disease -- Smoking -- Pediatric Obesity -- Somatization in Primary Care.
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Summary
Integrating behavioral health into primary care medical settings has been shown to produce: healthier patients; medical savings; higher patient satisfaction; and, increased physician satisfaction. This book provides practice guidelines and other associated practical tools for the practicing integrative care behavioral health professional.