TY - JOUR
KW - Behavioral Medicine
KW - Delivery of Health Care, Integrated/economics/organization & administration
KW - Health Services Needs and Demand
KW - Humans
KW - Medicine
KW - Mental Health Services/economics/organization & administration
KW - Outcome Assessment (Health Care)
KW - Reimbursement Mechanisms/economics
KW - Specialization
KW - United States
AU - A. S. Pomerantz
AU - J. A. Corson
AU - M. J. Detzer
A1 - 
AB - A growing body of research has demonstrated the effectiveness of integrating mental/behavioral healthcare with primary care in improving health outcomes. Despite this rich literature, such demonstration programs have proven difficult to maintain once research funding ends. Much of the discussion regarding maintenance of integrated care has been focused on lack of reimbursement. However, provider factors may be just as important, because integrated care systems require providers to adopt a very different role and operate very differently from traditional mental health practice. There is also great variability in definition and operationalization of integrated care. Provider concerns tend to focus on several factors, including a perceived loss of autonomy, discomfort with the hierarchical nature of medical care and primary care settings, and enduring beliefs about what constitutes "good" treatment. Providers may view integrated care models as delivering substandard care and passively or actively resist them. Dissemination of available data regarding effectiveness of these models is essential (e.g. timeliness of treatment, client satisfaction). Increasing exposure and training in these models, while maintaining the necessary training in traditional mental health care is a challenge for training at all levels, yet the challenge clearly opens new opportunities for psychology and psychiatry.
BT - Journal of clinical psychology in medical settings
C5 - Education & Workforce
CP - 1
CY - United States
DO - 10.1007/s10880-009-9147-x
IS - 1
JF - Journal of clinical psychology in medical settings
N2 - A growing body of research has demonstrated the effectiveness of integrating mental/behavioral healthcare with primary care in improving health outcomes. Despite this rich literature, such demonstration programs have proven difficult to maintain once research funding ends. Much of the discussion regarding maintenance of integrated care has been focused on lack of reimbursement. However, provider factors may be just as important, because integrated care systems require providers to adopt a very different role and operate very differently from traditional mental health practice. There is also great variability in definition and operationalization of integrated care. Provider concerns tend to focus on several factors, including a perceived loss of autonomy, discomfort with the hierarchical nature of medical care and primary care settings, and enduring beliefs about what constitutes "good" treatment. Providers may view integrated care models as delivering substandard care and passively or actively resist them. Dissemination of available data regarding effectiveness of these models is essential (e.g. timeliness of treatment, client satisfaction). Increasing exposure and training in these models, while maintaining the necessary training in traditional mental health care is a challenge for training at all levels, yet the challenge clearly opens new opportunities for psychology and psychiatry.
PP - United States
PY - 2009
SN - 1573-3572; 1068-9583
SP - 40
EP - 46
EP - 
T1 - The challenge of integrated care for mental health: Leaving the 50 minute hour and other sacred things
T2 - Journal of clinical psychology in medical settings
TI - The challenge of integrated care for mental health: Leaving the 50 minute hour and other sacred things
U1 - Education & Workforce
U2 - 19184375
U3 - 10.1007/s10880-009-9147-x
VL - 16
VO - 1573-3572; 1068-9583
Y1 - 2009
ER -