What can you do with a behavioral health degree?
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| Behavioral health professionals with training in substance abuse can provide a range of services that are likely to enhance the quality and quantity of care available to patients. | |
| 3 Behavioral health providers can support their primary care colleagues in managing the behavioral complications of mental health conditions to optimize provider- patient relationships, patient and family engagement in care, and treatment outcomes. | |
58 Citations | Full integration of tobacco cessation interventions into behavioral health treatment, coupled with implementation of tobacco-free campus policies in behavioral health treatment settings, could decrease tobacco use and tobacco-related disease and could improve behavioral health outcomes among persons with mental and substance use disorders (1-4). |
21 Citations | 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. |
Open access•Posted Content 132 Citations | Once behavioral hazard is taken into account, health insurance can do more than just provide financial protection—it can also improve health care efficiency. |
15 Citations | 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. |
21 Citations | Universal screening at university health centers can facilitate early identification and treatment of behavioral health problems common among college students. |
8 Citations | 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. |
| This leads us to propose an update of the definition and scope of behavioral medicine. Issues in need of clarification or updating include the scope of behavioral medicine (biobehavioral mechanisms, clinical diagnosis and intervention, and prevention and health promotion); research as an essential characteristic of all three areas of behavioral medicine; the application of behavioral medicine; the terminology of behavioral medicine as a multidisciplinary field; and the relationship and distinction between behavioral medicine, mental health, health psychology, and psychosomatic medicine. We propose the following updated definition and scope of behavioral medicine: “Behavioral medicine can be defined as the multidisciplinary field concerned with the development and integration of biomedical and behavioral knowledge relevant to health and disease, and the application of this knowledge to prevention, health promotion, diagnosis, treatment, rehabilitation, and care. | |
80 Citations | These results provide further support for integrating behavioral health services into pediatric primary care settings, thus allowing physicians to refer more difficult patients with behavioral issues to in-house collaborating behavioral health providers who can spend additional time necessary to address the behavioral health issue and who are licensed to receive mental health reimbursement. |
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