Integrated Primary and Behavioral Care
Role in Medical Homes and Chronic Disease Management
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Alexandros Maragakis
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Reforming the Behavioral Health Delivery System for Adolescents: Why Is It Needed and What Is Psychology’s Role?
Spending on health care in the United States has grown at an unsustainable rate for the past four decades, yet millions of Americans fail to receive effective and efficient care. National expenditures for the ...
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Patient-Centered Medical Homes: The Promise and the Research Agenda
To address numerous problems with costly, unsafe, and inefficient fragmented care in the US health-care system, primary care reform has become a major area of interest. Proposed reforms have been centered arou...
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Training the Behavioral Health Workforce for the Patient-Centered Medical Home
The argument that behavioral health providers (BHPs) require specialized training to meet the unique demands of the primary care than what is usually provided in, for example, the standard clinical psychology ...
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Introduction: The Quality Agenda in Behavioral Health
Behavioral health services have historically accounted for a small percentage of overall healthcare costs—usually around 5 %, with psychotropic medications accounting for the majority of this spending (Cumming...
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Quality Improvement, Professional Competence, and the American Psychological Association’s Ethical Principles and Code of Conduct
The American Psychological Association’s Ethical Principles and Code of Conduct (APA, 2010) are foundational partly because they prove the ethical and legal definition of how psychologists ought to behave and ...
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Creating a Quality Improvement System for an Integrated Care (IC) Program: The Why, What, and How to Measure
The landscape of the healthcare system in the USA is rapidly changing. With seminal reports from the Institute of Medicine (IOM), like Crossing the Quality Chasm (2001) and Improving the Quality of Health Care fo...
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The Transformation of the Healthcare System: Integrated Primary Care and the Role of Stepped Care Interventions for Behavioral Health Providers
Most countries spend a significant portion of their gross domestic product (GDP) on healthcare expenses. As of 2013, the OECD average healthcare expense per GDP was 8.9%, and in the United States (US), one of ...
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Serious Mental Illness
The term serious mental illness (SMI) is commonly used in healthcare but lacks clear definition. This lack of clarity is due to SMI being used to describe multiple psychological issues, such as psychosis (Rugg...
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The Epidemiology of Medical Diseases and Associated Behavioral Risk Factors
Drastic improvements in public health paired with advancements in medicine have lowered infant mortality and significantly boosted the average life span (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 2003)...
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Expanding the Role of Behavior Analysts
Our goal is to highlight the applicability, the implementation, and the utility of behavior analysis across a wide range of socially meaningful domains. While a relatively narrow specialization in neurodevelop...
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Suitability of Behavior Analysis in Pediatric Primary Care
The scope of applied behavior analysis has been narrow, and behavior analysts have focused their attention on special populations. Concurrently, there are many children and adolescents outside of these special...
