Integrated Behavioral Health in Primary Care: Step-By-Step Guidance for Assessment and Intervention
These four highly experienced behavioral health consultants (BHCs) use the 5A's model of behavior change (assess, advise, agree, assist, arrange) to offer insightful instruction to medical and behavioral health providers working together in primary care settings. Relying on rigorous reviews of evidence as well as creativity derived from experience, the authors methodically address the most common problems in primary care, ranging from postpartum depression to prescription medication abuse. This is a desktop reference for practicing BHCs and a basic text for health psychology and medical social work students.--Patricia J. Robinson, PhD, author of Behavioral Consultation and Primary Care and Treating Depression in Primary CareThis text is the `missing behavioral link' for the family physician. It is both The 5-Minute Consultant and a valuable reference text all wrapped up in one. I will use it often and heartily recommend it to colleagues who want to provide better care.--Thomas McKnight, MD, MPH, AFR, Col., Family Medicine Clinic, Hurlburt Field, FLThe authors have provided an extraordinary set of resources for behavioral health professionals working in primary care. They offer a useful conceptual framework to guide practice as well as a toolbox replete with sample transcripts, checklists, and patient handouts.--Cynthia D. Belar, PhD, ABPP, Executive Director, Education Directorate, American Psychological Association; coauthor of Clinical Health Psychology in Medical Settings: A Practitioner's Guidebook, Second EditionThis book describes and embodies the best of behavioral health consultant practice. It is focused, economical, practical, and capable of making a crucial difference. It gives the reader a plethora of useful tools and careful instructions on how to use them. It is grounded in evidence and built on experience. I think its usefulness will keep growing as behavioral health practice in primary care grows beyond co-located separate services into an integrated approach that is as undifferentiated as the needs of the patients we serve.--Alexander Blount, EdD, Director of Behavioral Science, Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, University of Massachusetts Medical School, WorsterThis timely volume is important for all administrators, psychologists, and physicians who focus on the reality that there is no effective primary health care without the integration of medicine and psychology. The authors have gone through the trials, tribulations, and successes of generating behavioral health and medicine collaboration. Through this volume they share the insight and knowledge gained from their initiatives.--Rodger Kessler, PhD, ABPP, Berlin Family Health, Fletcher Allen Health Care, Montpelier, VT