Mental Health Professionals in Medical Settings: A Primer

JoEllen Patterson, C.J. Peek, Richard L. Heinrich, Richard J. Bischoff, and Joseph Scherger

Overview – Table of Contents

Contents

Introduction: The Medical-Mental Health Split in Health Care- What We Can Do About It

Part I: About Health Care Settings

1. The Culture and Context of Primary and Specialty Health Care

2. The Culture and Context of Mental Health Care

3. Bringing other Cultures Together: Harmonizing the Clinical, Operational, and Financial Perspectives of Health Care

Part II: How to Build the New Profession and Practices Of Collaborative Medical Care

4. Getting Started: Bringing Mental Health into Primary Care

5. An expanded Identity and Role for Therapist Entering Medical Clinics

6. Ways of Working in Medical Clinics: What Works, What Doesn't

7. Working with Patients Having the Common Mental Health Problems Seen in Primary Care

8. Working to Promote Healthy Behavior Change (not just Treatment of Symptoms)

9. Integrated Health Care-A New Horizon For Psychotherapist

Appendix A: Dissatisfaction with Fragmented Medical and Mental Health Care (Based on Author's Experiences)

Appendix B: Components of Biopsychosocial Model

Appendix C: Terms Commonly Used in Referring to Mental Health Professionals

Appendix D: Recognized Medical Specialties

Appendix E: Case Rounds: A Group Feedback and Coaching Practice for Clinicians

Glossary

References

Index

About the Authors

JoEllen Patterson, Ph.D., is a faculty member in the Marriage and Family Therapy Program at the University of San Diego and the Director of Behavioral Sciences for the Sharp Health Care Family Medicine Residency. In addition, she is collaborating with the Department of Family Medicine at the University of California at San Diego on the integration of mental health interns and family medicine residents at the UCSD family medicine clinics.
C.J. Peek, Ph.D., L.P., is a psychologist who consults in the areas of health care collaboration, communication, clinical communication, and interprofessional relationships. Formerly of the HealthPartners Medical Group and Clinics in Minneapolis, MN, Dr. Peek founded and helped lead its primary care/mental health integration projects from their start in the mid-eighties through 2001.
Richard L. Heinrich, M.D., is Medical Director of Hospice of the Lakes, and Assistant Medical Director of the Division of Behavioral Health at the HealthPartners Medical Group and Clinics in Minneapolis, MN, where he practices geropsychiatry. With Dr. Peek, he has co-led HealthPartners' primary care/mental health integration projects since 1991.
Richard J. Bischoff, Ph.D., is Director of the Marriage and Family Therapy Program at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
Joseph Scherger, M.D., M.P.H., is a family physician with a long history of collaboration with mental health providers, both in training and practice. He is currently Dean of the College of Medicine at Florida State University in Tallahassee.

ISBN: 0-393-70338-X
June, 2002
Hardcover, 240 pages