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Product Details
Integrated Primary Care / Behavioral Healthcare Certificate Program
- Credit(s): 3.5 Clinical
- Course Number: PA-integratedprimarycare19
- Duration: 3 hours 34 minutes
- Access: Available for 5 months after Registration
Self Study
- Non-Member Price
- $70.00
- Member Price
- $35.00

Description

Upon completing the Integrated Primary Care and Behavioral Health Certificate program you will be able to:

Module 1: Introduction to Integrated Primary Care Practice (PCP)
a) Understand and distinguish between primary care, integrated primary care, and the PCMH model
b) Identify key factors leading to integration of behavioral care in primary care
c) Compare & contrast role of traditional behavioral health provider to role of providing services within a PCP setting

Module 2: Clinical Social Workers Role in Primary Care: Continuum of Care
a) Explore the continuum of behavioral health integration within primary care
b) Understand the range of patient needs
c) How clinical social workers add value to primary care and treat a full range of patients
d) Discuss primary care provider’s culture readiness to embrace integration of behavioral health services
e) Training and technical assistance that the social worker provides in educating the primary care staff on behavioral health identification and patient engagement.

Module 3: Primary Care Patients: Who are They?
a) Learn common patient’s behavioral health concerns in primary care
b) Skills needed in practice management and primary care interventions
c) Clinical assessment and screening in PCP settings
d) Health literacy of patients
e) Cultural back ground of patients
f) Ethical Issues

Module 4: Integrated Primary Care Interventions
a) Identify clinical skills associated with PCP interventions
b) Explain how a social worker offers consultations, clinical interventions, and care management to PCP patients.
c) Evidence-based practice: CBT, MI, Problem Solving Therapy, MBSR, Behavior Activation, Psycho-education, family therapy, and parent/child interaction therapy.
d) Understand what the main goals are when providing services within a PCP setting.
e) Patient self-care
f) Symptom reduction
g) Functional improvement
h) Compliance with medical treatment/care
i) Deep breathing and relaxation
j) Sleep hygiene
k) Exercise
l) Disease management
m) Problem solving
n) Communication with medical providers

Module 5: Motivational Enhancement Strategies for Integrated Primary Care
a) Patient-centered
b) Clearly defined change target (focus)
c) Eliciting the patient’s own motivation
d) OARS technique: Open-ended questions, Affirming statements, Reflecting statements, Summarizing

Module 6: Reducing Preventable Disease by Promoting Health
a) A social workers role in health promotion: Whole Person Health
b) Common screening instruments used to detect risk for behavioral health in primary care.
c) Assist in creating a screening program in integrated primary care settings
d) Optimizing patient health in primary care

Module 7: Substance Abuse and Prescription Medication Abuse
a) Identification
b) Assessment
c) Treatment Interventions

Module 8: Chronic Disease Management
a) Targeting depression, anxiety, diabetes, COPD, chronic pain, prescription drug abuse, substance abuse, and cardiac issues
b) Describe aspects of integrated primary care critical to chronic disease management across the life span
c) Psycho-social factors associated with chronic medical conditions

Module 9: Medical Terminology and Pharmacology

The following members of the NASW-PA Clinical Care Committee developed and recorded all the modules related to the Certificate in Integrated Primary Care and Behavioral Health. NASW-PA extends our appreciation and gratitude on the time spent developing this program.

Troy Brindle, LCSW, Vice-President, Co-Owner, & Founder/ Director of Primary Care Services for Springfield Psychological; Co-Chair NASW-PA Clinical Care Committee.
Dr. Michele Felix, Assistant Director of Behavioral Science for Residency Development, St. Luke's University Health Network; Co-Chair, NASW-PA Clinical Care Committee
Lauren Dennelly, LCSW, Community Care Team, BHS Population Health, Lehigh Valley Health System
Valeri Ferri, LSW, Director, Philadelphia Connections
Dr. Kevin Caridad, Owner & Executive Director of Cognitive Behavior Institute
Special acknowledgement also goes to Jamie Plocinski, LCSW and Julie Platt

Credits

3.5 Clinical

Materials

	Module 1.pdf (0) (1 MB)
	Module 2.pdf (0) (1 MB)
	Module 3.pdf (0) (1 MB)
	Module 4.pdf (0) (1 MB)
	Module 5.pdf (0) (1 MB)
	Module 6.pdf (0) (1 MB)
	Module 7.pdf (0) (1 MB)
	Module 8.pdf (0) (976 KB)
	Module 9.pdf (0) (2 MB)

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