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What can I do with a behavioral health degree? 

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The results suggest that behavioral health screening in a university health center can help identify students with behavioral health concerns to increase access to care.
Once behavioral hazard is taken into account, health insurance can do more than just provide financial protection—it can also improve health care efficiency.
To attain these goals, it is essential to integrate behavioral health services into the patient-centered medical home, because behavioral health problems often first present in the primary care setting, and they significantly affect physical health.
In an internal survey of 33 medical providers in an integrated family medicine residency, 97% of respondents report they value behavioral health integration to such a degree that they are more likely to accept a job in a setting that offers integrated behavioral health.
Universal screening at university health centers can facilitate early identification and treatment of behavioral health problems common among college students.
During clinical rotations, behavioral health topics are most likely taught during the family medicine clerkship and, conversely, least likely during the surgery clerkship; furthermore, behavioral health topics are much less likely to be taught by psychiatrists during clinical rotations. Integration of behavioral and physical health in medical education is beginning to occur in a meaningful context.
The authors conclude that the behavioral health care system is entering an era of flux as it experiments with ways of integrating behavioral and primary care.
By linking behavioral healthcare services with primary healthcare services in the school setting, the psychiatric-mental health clinical nurse specialist is well suited to provide comprehensive behavioral health services.
ECHO has the potential to improve access to effective and cost-effective behavioral health care by virtually integrating behavioral health knowledge and support in sites where specialty providers are not available.
Many state Medicaid administrators, concerned about growing expenditures, have contracted with such organizations or capitated local providers, such as community mental health centers, to manage behavioral health benefits separately from other medical care.2 Such behavioral health “carve-out” programs come in . . .