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With the integration of behavioral health services into primary care and other medical specialties, the community of providers and the public must address a number of questions, including: What models of care are there for these services? What kinds of providers supply these services? Are these providers trained behavioral health providers or extenders in some form? And, as these systems of care are constructed, who makes use of them? The purpose of this study is to address these questions as well as to consider some of the challenges of attending to the spectrum of needs that will arise as integrated healthcare services expand. Consideration of these questions may serve to clarify the impact that these models of healthcare will have in ways that may be readily apparent and, at the same time, in ways that may be subtler and less comprehensible. Addressing these questions is also intended to facilitate discussions within healthcare systems and among providers concerning which models of care best respond to specific populations. In turn, proactively answering these questions will, for the foreseeable future, shape not only behavioral healthcare, in perhaps small or large ways, but also healthcare in general.
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Bütz, M.R., Tynan, W.D. Integrating Behavioral Healthcare and Primary Care, Appropriate Balance on What Model is Driving Care, and, the Whole Spectrum of Individuals are Coming Through the Door…. J Clin Psychol Med Settings 27, 553–559 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10880-019-09679-3
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