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Matthew P. Martin
June 7, 2023 by Matthew P. Martin

The Worker Shortage Crisis: Making Behavioral Healthcare an Attractive Career Option

3 minute read Last August I wrote about the long wait times for individuals in need of mental health services. Soon after that post, the American Psychological Association published survey results in November 2022 showing that 60% of psychologists cannot accept new patients, while 72% have longer wait lists than before the pandemic. A 2023 […]

Category iconIntegrated Care News Tag iconbehavioral health,  policy,  workforce development

Matthew P. Martin
May 10, 2023 by Matthew P. Martin

Patient Attribution: The System that Integrated Care Needs for Survival

Riddle me this: I am a system that is active and essential in healthcare, but a complete mystery to most healthcare professionals. Answer: a patient attribution system! Hopefully you did not peek at the title of my post. Did you get the right answer? Don’t worry if you did not guess a patient attribution system. […]

Category iconIntegrated Care News Tag iconintegrated care,  payer,  system

April 19, 2023 by Nina Russin

Resilience: The Science of Bouncing Back

Original post available here. Resilience is described as the ability to recover and grow in the face of stressors and changing demands (Deuster & Silverman, 2013). A lot of research about resilience has come from the US military, triggered a decade back by troops returning from Iraq and Afghanistan with severe emotional trauma. There is […]

Category iconIntegrated Care News Tag iconmindfulness,  resiliency,  spirituality,  meditation

Matthew P. Martin
March 30, 2023 by Matthew P. Martin

Teaching Clinicians at the National Level: My Experience with the STFM Addiction Medicine Project

4 minute read Every week I receive solicitations in my physical mailbox for clinical trainings on a variety of topics like trauma-informed care, grief counseling, mindfulness, and more. They never stop coming! I wonder who sent these companies my address. These trainings are usually live or recorded webinars with handouts, sometimes with a well-known expert […]

Category iconIntegrated Care News Tag icontraining,  workforce development

March 9, 2023 by Gerald Nebeker

After Human Trafficking: Ghananian Women Find Empowerment and Healing Through Spirituality

4 minute read Growing up in poverty in the slums of Kumasi, Ghana, 18-year-old Abina longed for a better life. Her pastor talked to her about job opportunities in other countries, and with his help, Abina signed up with an organization that promised great pay and benefits. Staff helped her get a passport and a […]

Category iconIntegrated Care News Tag iconhuman rights,  human trafficking,  spirituality

Neftali Serrano
March 6, 2023 by Neftali Serrano

The Integrated Care Map Turns Three!

Three years ago the Collaborative Family Healthcare Association (CFHA) set out to report on the spread of integrated care across the United States primary care system. Our initial report on findings in 2020 elicited interesting findings on the breadth and types of care being provided. Here we provided updated data which appears to demonstrate greater […]

Category iconIntegrated Care News Tag iconPrimary Care,  integrated care,  workforce,  public health

Matthew P. Martin
March 1, 2023 by Matthew P. Martin

Measuring Success in PCBH: Results from a Workgroup on Behavioral Health Screening

3 minute read In spring 2022, CFHA CEO Neftali Serrano approached the Primary Care Behavioral Health Special Interest Group (PCBH SIG) to begin the work of catalyzing standardized outcomes for measuring success in a PCBH environment. This invitation was warmly received as the role of the PCBH SIG is to grow interest and enthusiasm, provide […]

Category iconIntegrated Care News Tag iconPrimary Care,  behavioral health,  screening,  PCBH

Matthew P. Martin
February 22, 2023 by Matthew P. Martin

CFHA Conducts First-Ever Behavioral Health Workforce in Integrated Care Salary Survey

Neftali Serrano, CEO of CFHA, first approached me in late 2021 to design and distribute a salary survey to the integrated care workforce. I looked at my overloaded plate and thought, “This is too good to pass up”. So, I made room on the plate. As an educator, I’ve been involved in workforce projects for […]

Category iconIntegrated Care News,  Research Tag iconworkforce,  research,  salary

February 8, 2023 by Nina Russin

Can Religion and Spirituality Help with Managing Chronic Pain?

Original post available here Our current medical system derives largely from the biomedical model, which focuses on physical causes for disease. The more recent bio-psychosocial model posits that other factors, including your emotional state, support system (friends and family), and the environment also play a role, both in the development of disease and its prognosis. […]

Category iconIntegrated Care News Tag iconmindfulness,  chronic pain,  spirituality

Matthew P. Martin
February 1, 2023 by Matthew P. Martin

Federal Funding Opportunities: Is Your Clinic a Candidate for an Award?

US federal government agencies are currently accepting applications for large grant awards to address behavioral health patient needs across the country. Your healthcare organization may be a good candidate for one of these awards! Even if you are not funded, the exercise of grant writing will help you imagine the possibilities of improving your organization […]

Category iconIntegrated Care News Tag iconfunding,  research

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Neftali Serrano
December 7, 2022 by Neftali Serrano

Primary Care’s Moonshot Program For The Next Decade

5 Minute Read There is no single issue in the movement to integrate physical and behavioral health system that trumps the workforce shortage and training problem. Primary care needs a moonshot initiative to bridge that gap. I have some ideas. They are mine alone – I can’t speak for all of the Collaborative Family Healthcare […]

Category iconCEO's Desk Tag iconPrimary Care,  behavioral health,  workforce,  data

Matthew P. Martin
November 18, 2022 by Matthew P. Martin

Mental Healthcare: Maybe the Treatment Doesn’t Match the Diagnosis

5 minute read Most of my training and career have focused on the individual or family sitting in front of me asking for relief from their suffering. I have spent many hours learning how to engage, evaluate, and treat complex human beings who walk through the clinic door. It’s hard and rewarding work; but the […]

Category iconIntegrated Care News Tag iconstress,  mental health,  policy

Neftali Serrano
October 26, 2022 by Neftali Serrano

Behaviorists In Family Medicine Deserve An Upgrade

5 Minute Read Family medicine residency programs have long had behaviorists as part of the educational experience for physicians-in-training, but the role has not kept up with the many changes in training and healthcare over the last few decades. And so you have behavioral science faculty with unclear and often conflicting mandates for their work, […]

Category iconCEO's Desk Tag iconFamily Medicine,  integrated care,  mental health,  residents

October 10, 2022 by Julie Geiler

President Biden’s Plan for Integrated Behavioral Health

Maybe one of the only positives of the COVID-19 pandemic has been an increase in attention to the long-standing crisis in behavioral health and the movement to address the systemic barriers which prevent people from getting care.  President Biden has announced a national strategy to address the mental health crisis.  The Department of Health and […]

Category iconIntegrated Care News Tag iconPrimary Care,  family health,  integrated care,  policy

Barry J. Jacobs
October 3, 2022 by Barry J. Jacobs

Helping a Husband Be More Than a “Pillar of Strength”

Original post available here. One day, while working as a clinical psychologist in a primary care practice, I was asked by the family doctor scheduled to meet that morning with Lisa, a 72-year-old woman with moderate dementia, to stop by and see her 75-year-old husband, Dennis, for counseling for possible depression. Within the hour, I […]

Category iconIntegrated Care News Tag iconcaregiving

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September 16, 2022 by Katie Snow and J. Pugh

Forum: Which Discipline Creates the Best BHC?

3 minute read. Original post available here Hi everyone! As you can tell from the title of this post, today in the CFHA blog we are going to take on the age-old question “Which discipline creates the best BHC?”  I hope that it highlights the strengths our varied disciplines bring to integrated care! I asked […]

Category iconIntegrated Care News

September 2, 2022 by David Bauman

Can I Still Do This? Returning to Primary Care Behavioral Health

3 minute read. Original post available here Returning to the PCBH (Primary Care Behavioral Health) world after a week off is always an exciting, yet frightening experience. My mind always worries when returning to clinical work. “Will I still be able to do this?” “Do I still got what it takes?” And, then, all that doubt […]

Category iconIntegrated Care News Tag iconPrimary Care,  PCBH

Matthew P. Martin
August 18, 2022 by Matthew P. Martin

Waiting on Mental Health: Crisis for Services Deepens Across the U.S.

5 minute read Once upon a time, I was a behavioral medicine director at a family medicine clinic in North Carolina. Part of my job was to monitor the patient waiting list. We had normal delays like confirmation of benefits and no appointment slots. My goal was to schedule new patient appointments within 1-2 weeks […]

Category iconIntegrated Care News Tag iconintegrated care,  health inequities,  policy,  government,  crisis

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