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(Brief History) My colleagues and I at the VA Center for Integrated Healthcare (CIH) first developed the Primary Care Behavioral Health Provider Adherence Questionnaire (PPAQ) to address a fundamental question: What do PCBH providers do every day?  We all know that variation in clinical practice is common.  In short, clinicians don’t perfectly follow conceptual models […]

I decided to write a piece in response to the CFHA listserv discussion on detecting and addressing trauma in primary care. As I watched the messages from my colleagues trickle in about how to address medical providers’ unease discussing trauma with their patients I paused and knew my contribution would be forthcoming.  I have done […]

Kentucky has a long history of healthcare innovation. In May of 1993, it submitted its first 1115 waiver (under section 1115 of the Social Security Act, the federal government may grant the state flexibility to experiment with projects that are likely to promote the same objectives as the federal program – for more information, see […]

A recent article in Context, the house magazine of the Association of Family Therapy (AFT), raises questions about the future of family therapy as an accredited profession in the UK. A variety of threats to the profession are described, which include a lack of clarity about what the family therapists do and with which client groups. […]

Congratulations to the new incoming editors at Families, Systems, and Health: Drs. Jodi Polaha and Nadiya Sunderji. We are looking forward to some great work! This signals an end to the productive and expansive era of the former editors, Colleen T. Fogarty and Larry Mauksch. CFHA would like to thank Colleen and Larry for their visionary leadership. […]

In 2007, my education in marriage and family therapy (MFT) in the US began. After a year of course work, my clinical experience as a MFT intern started at the University of California San Diego Family Medicine Residency, which had well-established integrated care. For me, it was a novel and exciting experience working as a […]

If you missed the Friday morning plenary session at the 2017 CFHA Annual Conference in Houston, you missed a fantastic presentation by Len Nichols, PhD, Professor of Health Policy at George Mason University. Dr. Nichols described how we got to the current state of affairs in healthcare and what reform may look like in the […]

Welcome to the opening plenary session for the 2017 CFHA Annual Conference in beautiful Houston, Texas. Our fearless leader, Tina Runyan, began with a “state of the association” speech describing the strong financial footing of CFHA. She expressed appreciation for the vibrant, member-driven community. “I don’t know of an organization where you can post a […]

On October 19th, 2017, stakeholders from across Texas and beyond gathered for the annual policy summit that take place in conjunction with the CFHA Annual Conference. This year the policy summit focused on value-based payments and was supported by several organizations including The Meadows Foundation, Mental Health America of Greater Houston, Health Management Associates, and […]

The 2017 Collaborative Family Healthcare Association (CFHA) Annual Conference will soon take place in Houston, a city in recovery from Hurricane Harvey’s record-smashing rainfall and floods. CFHA members are proud to be in Houston this year and continue to support all the recovery efforts for everyone affected by recent natural disasters.   The Annual Conference […]

This is the second of a two-part series on Population Health. This post is a reprint of a piece from the MHA@GW Blog. Click here for the original post. Reprinted with permission. MHA@GW is the online master of health administration from the Milken Institute School of Public Health at the George Washington University.  “Population health.” It is a […]

Population health takes on the challenge of looking at whole groups (i.e., populations) with the goal of improving the health and preventing sickness in entire populations.1 Upon learning the term, the idea of population health made sense to me; yet, I still questioned how I, as a medical family therapist, could help intervene on the […]

News See what’s happening with integration in your neck of the woods: New Jersey: Making Integration Happen Integrated behavioral health is receiving quite a bit of attention in New Jersey. A recent opinion piece states the following: “Creating a more efficient and coordinated system that treats the whole person is the right move for New […]

Greetings from Ottawa Canada, where we saw Parliament Hill, ate poutine, and made new friends! We’re writing to tell you about our experience with the Canadian Collaborative Mental Health Care Conference known as “Shared Care” where we (Jodi and Jen) attended as invited guests this June.    Unlike CFHA, the Canadian event is an annual […]

Q & A with Morgan T. Sammons, PhD, ABPP, Executive Officer of the National Register of Health Service Psychologists Earlier this year, the National Register of Health Service Psychologists released the Integrated Healthcare Training Series. This series features 41 videos averaging about 16 minutes each. The videos cover theory and models of integrated care, practice […]

  A year ago we highlighted the work of Dr. Manjunatha from the National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences in Bangalore, India, who had written a report for the Lancet describing an ambitious program to integrate mental health services into primary care systems. The program, called the Manochaitanya Programme, provides mental health services every Tuesday […]

This post was written by the 2015 winner of the CFHA Research and Fellowship Award.  For me, one of the most challenging aspects of transitioning from traditional training in specialty mental health to working in a Primary Care Behavioral Health (PCBH) setting was learning ways to deliver interventions in that can be effective in a […]