Integrated Behavioral Healthcare
Subtitle: Positioning Mental Health Practice with Medical/Surgical Practice (Practical Resources for the Mental Health Professional)
Contributors: Victoria Follette (Editor); Steven C. Hayes (Editor); William O'Donohue (Editor)
Edition: 1st edition
Publisher: Academic Press
Published: August 15, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 347
ISBN-13: 9780121987619
Subjects: Mental Health Services; Practice Management; Integrated delivery of health care; Health Care Administration; Mental Health And Hygiene; Psychology; Medical; Health Care Delivery; Psychology & Psychiatry Profession - General; Managed Care Programs; Medical-Health Care Delivery; Psychology & Psychiatry / Clinical Psychology; Psychology / Practice Management; Psychology-Psychology Profession - General; Primary care (Medicine); Health Care Issues; Mental Health; organization & administration; Integrated delivery of health
First sentence: The history of managed healthcare, and particularly managed behavioral care, has never been succinctly delineated, leaving professional psychologists entering the field without clear knowledge of how healthcare evolved from a cottage industry into complete industrialization in a matter of a few decades.