Description
Book SynopsisThis book provides clinicians, consultants, and healthcare administrators with a roadmap to establishing a systemic, patient-centered, family-oriented behavioral health service that is integrated into a healthcare setting. 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.
A Systemic Approach to Behavioral Healthcare Integrationsummarizes 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 scie
Table of ContentsForeword
Preface
Acknowledgements
Prologue
Introduction: Why a Systemic Lens Is Critical for Integrated Care
Part 1: Overview: The Systemic Evolution of Integrated Care
Chapter 1: Models of Integrated Care and Beyond
Chapter 2: The Rise of Integrated Clinical Approaches
Chapter 3: Healthcare Reform and Emerging Models of Research
Part II: Overview: Systemic Integrated Care Implementation
Chapter 4: Healthcare Education, Financing, and Equity
Chapter 5: Organization and Practice Level Integration
Chapter 6: Shifting Practice Behaviors of Clinicials, Staff, and Administrators
Part III: Overview: A Systemic Lens for Integrated Clinical Services
Chapter 7: Clinical Theory, Strategies, and Research
Chapter 8: The Developing Evidence Base for Systemic Interventions
Chapter 9: Adult Healthcare
Chapter 10: Pediatrics
Chapter 11: Women’s Health
Chapter 12: Conclusion: Envisioning an Integrated Healthcare Home
Epilogue
References
Index
About the Authors
