Integrated Care: Creating Effective Mental and Primary Health Care Teams

A New, Effective Model for Integrated Care Delivery!

Creating Effective Mental and Primary Health Care Teams is an essential resource written for every member of a Collaborative Care team—social workers, nurses, psychologists, licensed counselors, psychiatrists, primary care providers, and administrators. The authors are recognized experts in the field and show how to access the information, develop the skills, and apply the clinical approaches needed to implement an effective collaborative approach.

Filled with illustrative examples, this comprehensive text is designed to make it easy for a clinical team to combine their efforts to better assess and treat patients. The authors highlight and explore in-depth the five principles of Collaborative Care:

• Patient Centered Team Care: Collaborate effectively as a team using shared care plans that incorporate patient goals.
• Population-Based Care: Share a defined group of patients tracked in a registry to make sure that no one falls through the cracks.
• Measurement-Based Treatment to Target: Track clinical outcomes and actively adjust treatments until goals are achieved.
• Evidence-Based Care: Use biopsychosocial treatments that are evidence-based.
• Accountable Care: Become accountable for improved outcomes at the individual patient and population level.

Providers ready to move to the next level of care will find Creating Effective Mental and Primary Health Care Teams an invaluable resource.