The Culture of Integrated Services (Health 101)

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The Culture of Integrated Services (Health 101)

Course Description

This 60-minute on-demand course will review the benefits of service integration for consumers with comorbidities and highlight the challenges to integration of care. Challenges of integrating services are rooted in organizational and cultural differences across disciplines and professions. We will discuss roles of mental health staff in Integrated settings, and highlight ways that various members of the treatment team can support the overall health of consumers. Additionally, we will review key medical issues that frequently co-occur with mental health and substance use disorders, and discuss how behavioral health providers can better identify co morbid health and mental health disorders.

At the conclusion of the on-demand course, participants will be able to:

(1) Recognize the need to provide integrated whole health care including at least three (3) medical consequences of behavioral health disorders.

(2) Recall at least three (3) medical conditions that frequently co-occur with mental health and substance use disorders.

(3) Identify examples of at least three (3) behavioral health interventions that can support consumer’s physical health.