Alexandros Maragakis

Mari Janikian

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 need is particularly pronounced when it comes to pediatric populations, where the consequences of unidentified or untreated behavioral health issues can be severe and long lasting. Recognizing these challenges, this book edition aims to facilitate workforce and skills development for professionals working in multiple specialty settings where pediatric behavioral health concerns frequently arise. The text will serve as a comprehensive resource for supervisors and trainees, emphasizing a discrete skill and competency-based approach tailored to the unique demands of each setting. By focusing on the development of specific competencies, the text will ensure that providers are equipped to address the diverse needs of pediatric patients effectively. This includes settings such as schools, hospitals, primary care clinics, and community-based programs, where early identification and intervention are crucial. In schools, for example, behavioral health providers need to be proficient in collaborating with educators and understanding the educational impacts of behavioral health issues. They must also be skilled in implementing school-wide interventions and working directly with students who exhibit behavioral or emotional difficulties. In hospital settings, providers must be prepared to address the complex interplay between physical and mental health, often working as part of a multidisciplinary team to provide holistic care to young patients. Primary care clinics represent another critical setting, where behavioral health concerns are often first identified. Providers in these environments need to be skilled in integrating behavioral health services into routine medical care, conducting screenings, and offering brief interventions. Community-based programs, on the other hand, require providers to engage with diverse populations, often in under-resourced areas, necessitating a high degree of cultural competence and adaptability. Overall, this text will highlight the importance of specialized training and continuous professional development to meet the evolving needs of pediatric populations in various specialty settings. By promoting a competency-based approach, it will empower providers to deliver high-quality, evidence-based care, ultimately improving outcomes for children and adolescents facing behavioral health challenges.

Evidence-Based Behavioral Health Practices in Pediatric Specialty Settings

William O'Donohue

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 primary care reform.

Role in Medical Homes and Chronic Disease Management

Integrated Primary and Behavioral Care

Claudia Drossel

Thomas J. Waltz

This timely volume explores the multiple domains where Behavior Analysts can provide meaningful assessment and interventions. 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. Reimbursement policies and name recognition as a treatment specific to autism have raised concerns that other areas where it is helpful, such as behavioral gerontology or integrated behavioral health, will be de-emphasized. This volume aims to promote workforce development and support broad behavior analytic training, considering the Behavior Analyst Certification Board’s 5th edition task list (effective in 2020).

Alexandros Maragakis

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