Integrated Primary Care: The Future of Medical and Mental Health Collaboration (Norton Professional Books)

Presents models for integrating medical and mental health services to best address patients' needs.

Integrated primary care, now instituted in many areas of the country, is both the service that integrates medical and mental health primary care and the practice of defining the problem brought by a patient without using "medical" or "mental" as inevitable distinctions. This volume makes the case for this approach, shows how to implement it, and describes some successful programs. It will be attractive to medical managers, plan administrators, physicians, and mental health providers.