Online Certificate Program in Primary Care Behavioral Health: 1st of multi week course

Event description

Who should enroll:  Behavioral Health professionals preparing for success as primary care behavioral health clinicians

Intended Learning Outcomes: To give participants the knowledge, skills and background to successfully transform speciality Behavioral Health to the cultures and settings of integrated Primary Care.

Format: Live online program, 6 full-day workshops (usually 2 Fridays per month for 3 months) with didactic and interactive training; participants can access program documentations, notes and session recordings via password-protected web portal.

Faculty: Primary Care Behavioral Health is collaboratively taught by a faculty of primary care behavioral health clinicians and primary care physicians from theDepartment of Family Medicine and Community Health at the University of Massachusetts Medical School.  The curriculum is designed by Alexander Blount, EdD a pioneer in the field of behavioral health integration and an active clinician.  

Background: As the integration of behavioral health clinicians into primary care continues to grow, the US is facing a staffing crisis. The number of training programs turning out new behavioral health professionals who have the skills to work in primary care is woefully inadequate.   A transitional experience is needed to give trained mental health professionals the substantive orientation they need to become behavioral health professionals in primary care.  Clinical programs that have transferred mental health professionals straight from specialty mental health centers into primary care have often failed in the past. 

Course Schedule Fall - 2015: All sessions run live online on Fridays

10:30 AM to 5:30 PM Eastern Time  

September 11: Introduction to Integration, Practice Transformation, Integrated Team Care

September 25: Health Behavior Change; Substance Abuse in Primary Care; Chronic Pain Care

October 9: Role of BH Services in Pediatrics; Practicing as a BH Clinician in Pediatric Care; Adolescents and Other Challenging Populations

October 30: Screening and Collaborative Care; Psychotropic Medications; Caring for Chronic Illnesses

November 6: Evidence Based Therapy; Medically Unexplained Symptoms; Geriatrics in Primary Care

November 20: Caring for Patients with Serious Mental Illness; Fostering Health Behavior Change for Patients with SMI; Relaxation Response Therapies

December 11: Cultural Competence, Families in Primary Care, Patient Activation and Shared Decision Making

Registration closes September 4th 

Details
Event date
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Attendance mode
Online
Cost
$1200- $1800
Contact
Phone
774-441-8171
Organization
UMass Center for Integrated Primary Care