Alexandros Maragakis – författare

This timely volume provides the practitioner with evidence based treatments for many of the clinical problems encountered in integrated care.  It applies the core concepts of stepped care to integrating brief mental health interventions as a way to address ongoing problems in the modern healthcare landscape. It sets out in depth the state of the healthcare crisis in terms of costs, staffing and training issues, integration logistics and management, system culture, and a variety of clinical considerations. Central to the book is a best-practice template for providing behavioral stepped care in medical settings, including screening and assessment, levels of intervention and treatment, referrals, and collaboration with primary care and other specialties. Using this format, contributors detail specific challenges of and science-based interventions for a diverse range of common conditions and issues, including:Depression.Anxiety disorders.Adherence to chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder management.Alcohol and other substance misuse.Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.Chronic pain.Neurocognitive disorders.Paraphilias: problematic sexual interests.[WU3] Sexual abuse and PTSD in children.A solid roadmap for widescale reform, Principle-Based Stepped Care and Brief Psychotherapy for Integrated Care Settings is deeply informative reading for health psychologists, social workers, psychiatrists, and clinical psychologists. It also clarifies the research agenda for thoseseeking improvements in healthcare quality and delivery and patient satisfaction.

Selecting clinical areas in which behavior analysts already are active, chapters will describe unique features of the setting as well as the skills and competencies needed to practice in these areas.While providers of behavior analytic services have substantially increased in number, the field of behavior analysis itself has narrowed.

Selecting clinical areas in which behavior analysts already are active, chapters will describe unique features of the setting as well as the skills and competencies needed to practice in these areas.While providers of behavior analytic services have substantially increased in number, the field of behavior analysis itself has narrowed.

As the field of behavioral health continues to evolve beyond the confines of traditional outpatient office settings, there is a growing need for providers who are adept at delivering evidence-based services across various specialty environments.

This timely analysis spotlights the concepts and possibilities of the Patient-Centered Medical Home for bringing mental health and other specialties into primary care. Overview chapters present the Patient-Centered Medical Home model, emphasizing how such systems are organized to solve widespread problems with accessibility, affordability, efficiency, and safety. Practitioner roles, boundaries, and opportunities plus applications are clarified, as well as staffing, financial, and technological challenges. And the section on applications describe care models for special populations, such as comprehensive services to the seriously mentally ill and behavioral services to patients with chronic health conditions.Included in the coverage:Integrated care and specialty behavioral health care in the patient-centered medical home.Training the behavioral health workforce for the patient-centered medical home.The importance of stepped care protocols for the redesign of behavioral health care in patient-centered medical homes.Depression management in the medical home.Treating obesity in a primary care setting.Integrating behavioral health in the pediatric medical home.For health and clinical psychologists, primary care and family physicians, and public health professionals, Integrated Primary and Behavioral Care represents the potential for an exciting new frontier in primarycare reform.

This innovative volume presents a cogent case for quality improvement (QI) in behavioral healthcare as ethical practice, solid science, and good business. Divided between foundational concepts, key QI tools and methods, and emerging applications, it offers guidelines for raising care standards while addressing ongoing issues of treatment validity, staffing and training, costs and funding, and integration with medical systems. Expert contributors review the implications and potential of QI in diverse areas such as treatment of entrenched mental disorders, in correctional facilities, and within the professional context of the American Psychological Association. The insights, examples, and strategies featured will increase in value as behavioral health becomes more prominent in integrated care and vital to large-scale health goals.Included in the coverage:Behavioral health conditions: direct treatment costs and indirect social costs.

This timely analysis spotlights the concepts and possibilities of the Patient-Centered Medical Home for bringing mental health and other specialties into primary care. Overview chapters present the Patient-Centered Medical Home model, emphasizing how such systems are organized to solve widespread problems with accessibility, affordability, efficiency, and safety. Practitioner roles, boundaries, and opportunities plus applications are clarified, as well as staffing, financial, and technological challenges. And the section on applications describe care models for special populations, such as comprehensive services to the seriously mentally ill and behavioral services to patients with chronic health conditions.Included in the coverage:Integrated care and specialty behavioral health care in the patient-centered medical home.Training the behavioral health workforce for the patient-centered medical home.The importance of stepped care protocols for the redesign of behavioral health care in patient-centered medical homes.Depression management in the medical home.Treating obesity in a primary care setting.Integrating behavioral health in the pediatric medical home.For health and clinical psychologists, primary care and family physicians, and public health professionals, Integrated Primary and Behavioral Care represents the potential for an exciting new frontier in primarycare reform.

This timely volume provides the practitioner with evidence based treatments for many of the clinical problems encountered in integrated care.  It applies the core concepts of stepped care to integrating brief mental health interventions as a way to address ongoing problems in the modern healthcare landscape. It sets out in depth the state of the healthcare crisis in terms of costs, staffing and training issues, integration logistics and management, system culture, and a variety of clinical considerations. Central to the book is a best-practice template for providing behavioral stepped care in medical settings, including screening and assessment, levels of intervention and treatment, referrals, and collaboration with primary care and other specialties. Using this format, contributors detail specific challenges of and science-based interventions for a diverse range of common conditions and issues, including:Depression.Anxiety disorders.Adherence to chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder management.Alcohol and other substance misuse.Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.Chronic pain.Neurocognitive disorders.Paraphilias: problematic sexual interests.[WU3] Sexual abuse and PTSD in children.A solid roadmap for widescale reform, Principle-Based Stepped Care and Brief Psychotherapy for Integrated Care Settings is deeply informative reading for health psychologists, social workers, psychiatrists, and clinical psychologists. It also clarifies the research agenda for thoseseeking improvements in healthcare quality and delivery and patient satisfaction.