TY - JOUR
KW - behavioral health
KW - integrated care
KW - Mental Health
KW - prevention
KW - Stigma
AU - A. A. Williams
A1 - 
AB - Current models of mental health care often do not address three barriers to mental health: the binary view of mental illness (healthy vs. mentally ill), stigma, and prevention. Care models where some patients are selected for referral or consultation with a mental health professional can reinforce this binary view and the stigma associated with seeing mental health services. By only selecting patients who currently are experiencing mental health problems, current integrated care models do not offer sufficient avenues for prevention. To address these barriers, this article proposes building on current models through the development of primary mental health providers (PMHPs). PMHPs-like primary care providers-would provide regular check-ups, assessments, prevention interventions, first-line treatment, or referral to more specialized professionals. This universal approach will help decrease the binary view of mental health, decrease the stigma of seeing a mental health professional through universal access, and improve prevention efforts.
BT - Journal of clinical psychology in medical settings
C5 - General Literature
CY - United States
DO - 10.1007/s10880-019-09626-2
JF - Journal of clinical psychology in medical settings
N2 - Current models of mental health care often do not address three barriers to mental health: the binary view of mental illness (healthy vs. mentally ill), stigma, and prevention. Care models where some patients are selected for referral or consultation with a mental health professional can reinforce this binary view and the stigma associated with seeing mental health services. By only selecting patients who currently are experiencing mental health problems, current integrated care models do not offer sufficient avenues for prevention. To address these barriers, this article proposes building on current models through the development of primary mental health providers (PMHPs). PMHPs-like primary care providers-would provide regular check-ups, assessments, prevention interventions, first-line treatment, or referral to more specialized professionals. This universal approach will help decrease the binary view of mental health, decrease the stigma of seeing a mental health professional through universal access, and improve prevention efforts.
PP - United States
PY - 2019
SN - 1573-3572; 1068-9583
T1 - The Next Step in Integrated Care: Universal Primary Mental Health Providers
T2 - Journal of clinical psychology in medical settings
TI - The Next Step in Integrated Care: Universal Primary Mental Health Providers
U1 - General Literature
U2 - 31087238
U3 - 10.1007/s10880-019-09626-2
VO - 1573-3572; 1068-9583
Y1 - 2019
ER -