Education and Workforce
Education and training of the workforce is key for adopting integration of behavioral health and primary care.
There is a significant need to train both behavioral health and primary care clinicians to work together in teams. Bringing two different health care cultures together in one setting, collaborating, often requires a new way of using one’s training and education. Too often in the current training and education paradigm, we train healthcare providers for the system we have— fragmented, broken, often operated in silos— rather than the more collaborative, comprehensive, team-based and integrated system that we desire. Attention to education and training for those engaged in integration, or preparing to work in integration is increasingly important to the field.
The Academy provides information on the identified needs in this area as well as those programs and resources that have been or are being developed to meet those needs.
On this site, you can find examples of behavioral health programs that have a primary care emphasis as well as about workforce issues for the field in general.
Visit the literature collection for a list of citations on integration Education and Workforce issues.
