Overview
- Provides principles and guidelines for integrated care skill development
- Focuses heavily on training of behavioral health providers in medical practices
- Models structure and content of existing doctoral level intregrated behavioral health degree program
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Introduction
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Overview of Integration: State of the Science
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Training the Workforce for Integrated BH Care
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Supporting System Changes for Integration
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About this book
This unique trainer’s resource offers a comprehensive blueprint for preparing clinicians for practice in the changing and challenging environment of integrated care. Based firmly in new evidence-based models of behavioral care in medicine, it sets out the aims and objectives of modern integrated care delivery in a streamlined pedagogy-to-practice framework. Teaching strategies for developing core skills and competencies, suitable across diverse educational and workforce development settings, are presented with data-based rationales and guidelines for design and implementation. Chapters also cover the range of essentials, from research support to business acumen to program evaluation methods, needed to meet bedrock goals of improved quality of care, clinical outcomes, and patient satisfaction.
The book’s comprehensive coverage:
- Reviews the evidence base for integrating medical and behavioral care.
- Provides empirically sound guidelines for training learners in integrated practice.
- Breaks down skill development into critical training objectives.
- Offers detailed content of a current degree program in integrative behavioral medicine.
- Recommends measures to support responsive, patient-centered, and sustainable training programs.
A robust guide to a more inclusive and effective future, Training to Deliver Integrated Care expands the healthcare horizon to accommodate trainers working in health psychology, general practice, primary care medicine, and consulting, as well as supervision and coaching professionals.
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Rodger Kessler is a health psychologist practicing in family medicine for over 20 years. He is an assistant professor in the department of family medicine and the center for translational science at the University of Vermont, and become an associate clinical professor in the doctoral program in Behavioral Health at Arizona State University. He has designed, implemented, and evaluated the effectiveness of many integration projects in family medicine, internal medicine, and subspecialties, as well as three integrated Vermont Fletcher Allen Health Care Patient Centered Medical Home MH collaborative practices and is beginning a 30 project national project to evaluate the outcomes of different models of integration. He is Project Director of a recent SAMHSA funded multi department initiative training medical residents, nurses and social work students in team based integrated care. He is a senior editor of Translational Behavioral Medicine: Practice, Policy, Research for which he edited a special edition on the patient centered medical home.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Training to Deliver Integrated Care
Book Subtitle: Skills Aimed at the Future of Healthcare
Editors: C.R. Macchi, Rodger Kessler
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-78850-0
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-78848-7Published: 30 August 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-07662-7Published: 21 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-78850-0Published: 22 August 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIV, 230
Number of Illustrations: 7 b/w illustrations, 19 illustrations in colour
Topics: Health Psychology, General Practice / Family Medicine, Consulting, Supervision and Coaching, Primary Care Medicine