Caring Alongside Medical Professionals: Introduction to Integrated Care
Caring Alongside Medical Professionals: Introduction to Integrated Care
In this course, Dr. Rachel Allen explains how mental health professionals can work effectively alongside medical professionals to provide comprehensive patient-centred care.
About this course
In this course, Dr. Rachel Allen, Psy.D., defines the continuum of collaborative care and explains how different levels of integration function in practice. Key models of integrated behavioural health are described, including their structures, advantages, and implementation. You learn the differences between integrated behavioural health and traditional mental health and find out what competencies are necessary to work in integrated care settings. Dr. Allen provides many case examples to illustrate her points.