Primary Care Behavioral Health

Curriculum

Workshop 3B: Integrating Care for People with Serious and Persistent Mental Illness

Faculty: Alexander Blount, EdD, and Sherry Pagoto, PhD  

Reviewing Recovery: Social Articulation and the Experience of People with Serious Mental Illness 
(2 hours)

• We don't know what to call them: stigma vs. possibility
• Evidence about their health: the famous 25 years
• The problem that this population presents for the health system
• The problem that the health system presents for this population
• General approaches to contextual rehabilitation: constructing a "unit"

Goal: Participants will be able to define "social articulation" and use the concept to understand clients' common maladaptive behaviors in medical care settings.

The Elements of a System that Integrated Behavioral Health and Medical Care  (2 hours)

• Solving the problems of integrating behavioral and medical care: practices and cultures
• Care management: The tool of the PCMH and the CMHC

Goal: Participants will be able to describe the elements of an integrated system.

Teaching Healthy Behaviors and Coping with Chronic Illness  (2 hours)

• An evidence-based curriculum and the adaptation for people struggling with serious mental illness

Goal: Participants will be able to deliver a structured experience in health promotion for people with serious mental illness.