The Value of Collaboration and Shared Culture in Behavioral Health Integration
► View the AMA’s Behavioral Health Integration webinar series: https://bit.ly/3JwiSRU
In this installment of the BHI Overcoming Obstacles series, physician experts provide actionable insights on how best to collaborate to integrate behavioral health within current workflows.
Speakers:
• Anna Ratzliff, MD, PhD–Co-director, AIMS Center, University of Washington
Corinne Rhodes, MD, MPH–Assistant professor at Penn Medicine, University of Pennsylvania Health System
• Karen Smith, MD, PA–Owner, The Family Medicine Practice of Karen L. Smith MD, FAAFP
• Abigail Schlesinger, MD–Associate professor of psychiatry and pediatrics, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
Chapters:
0:00 Introduction
2:54 WHO definition of health
5:04 Increased behavioral health burden due to COVID-19
7:01 How to improve access to mental health services
8:30 The IMPACT Study (Improving Mood – Promoting Access to Collaborative Treatment)
13:15 Building a culture of collaboration (panel introduction)
22:01 BHI and the patient experience
29:04 BHI and the provider experience
34:26 Integrating behavioral health into a large scale system
40:33 Advice and lessons learned
44:46 Working with pediatric populations
50:04 Chronic illness and depression
53:03 The experience of patients and families
Presented by the Behavioral Health Integration (BHI) Collaborative, this webinar series will enable physicians to sustain a collaborative, integrated, whole-person, and equitable approach to physical and behavioral health care in their practices during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond.
► Full transcript: https://www.ama-assn.org/delivering-care/public-health/behavioral-health-integration-webinar-series-value-collaboration