Main description:

Healthcare that goes beyond biomedical issues, to address our whole biopsychosocial selves, produces better outcomes for patients and families.

Integrating behavioral health into medical settings requires an understanding of the interplay of multiple systemic layers in American healthcare. The existing literature on integration largely fails to address the "big picture" of integrated services and systems, including operations, clinical processes, and financial sustainability elements.

This book provides healthcare administrators, consultants, and clinicians with a roadmap to establishing a systemic, patient-centered, family-oriented behavioral health service that is integrated into a healthcare setting.

It summarizes the literature on the impact of integrating behavioral health care into medical settings, on the role of families in health maintenance and chronic disease management, and on team science and applying family systems theory/relational science to the teams that are now essential to healthcare.

Contents:

Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Foundations of Family Oriented Primary Care Behavioral Healthcare
Chapter 3: Implementation Challenges for Family Oriented Integrated Behavioral Healthcare
Chapter 4: Strategies for Successful Integration
Chapter 5: Pulling Implementation Together: Practice-level Case Examples of Behavioral Health Integration
Chapter 6: Family Oriented Behavioral Health Integration: Direct Clinical Care Primer
Chapter 7: Pulling It All Together: Case Examples of Family-oriented Integrated Behavioral Health Assessment and Intervention
Chapter 8: Conclusions and Applications