This document discusses the benefits of integrating behavioral health into primary care settings. It notes that integrating behavioral health can benefit patients, physicians, and the medical community by providing interventions to assist with disease management, substance abuse, and mental health disorders. Examples of interventions include support groups for conditions like diabetes, smoking cessation, depression, or substance abuse. Better coordination of care and feedback between specialties can also help address the mind-body connection for patients. The document examines different models of integrated care and recommends utilizing the Biodyne Model for its empirical support and popularity with patients.

1. Keys to success
By Mona Lisa Infante
Arizona State University
November 1, 2012

2.  Behavioral Health Integration : Why
Intergrate?
 How can it benefit patients, physicians, and
medical community.
 Interventions assist in the management of
disease, substance abuse, and mental health
disorders. Provide examples.
 how to integrate behavioral health into an
existing clinic

4.  Patients present to medical settings with
mental health problems.
 Convenient for patients to one-stop shop.
 Behavioral problems cause or contribute to
physical health
 Can benefit from a interdisciplinary team.
 Physical health problems can cause behavioral
health problems (diabetes can result in
depression).

5.  For example patients can receive support in
groups for diabetes, smoking cessation,
depression, or substance abuse.
 Better coordination of care due to being located
within the primary care setting.
 Assist with mind body connection and give
physician immediate feedback or
consultation with their patients.

6. Integrated Care Co-location Collaborative
Care
- Systematically combining - Most common - Integrated health
physical and mental health model of integrated care model
services care
- Term care approach to - PCPs develop -Partnership
mental health based in agreement with between the physical
community health primary mental health health and mental
care setting providers to whom health providers to
they refer their manage the
patients with mental treatment of mild to
health needs to on- moderate and stable
site mental health severe psychiatric
services disorders in primary
care settings
- Integration of mental health - PCPs typically do - May include brief
treatment in primary care not follow up on their psychotherapy or
referral once it has simply medication
been made management and
patient education

7.  Utilizing the Biodyne Model to integrate
behavioral health into existing settings would
be beneficial in that:
 It is an empirically evaluated, developed
model.
 It is well liked by patients.
 There is a growing demand for behavioral
interventions in a medical setting.