With behavioral care integration taking firm hold across the State, there’s been a growing demand for training in the area – both clinical and administrative. To meet the need, conferences, symposiums and webinars are cropping up faster than cheetahs on roller skates.
While some training opportunities are fleeting, others live on in cyberspace. For professionals with schedules brimming over, which are most of us, these on-demand training sessions are as close and convenient as our nearest computer. Here are some offerings that are available for free.
WEBINARS (audio and Powerpoint)
With CalMHSA funding, IBHP is sponsoring a youtube Policy Channel presented by the University of Colorado and devoted to integrated care training videos. Among the videos:
- Colorado State Innovation Model – The Need for Payor Data
- Atlas of Integrated Behavioral Health Care Quality Measures
- The State of Health Care Policy
- Integrating Your Practice: Key Building Blocks
- A Workforce for Integration
- Practice Transformation: Lessons Learned from Multiple Integration Projects
- Integrated Health Care for Racial and Ethnic Minorities
- Alternative Payment Models for Sustaining Integration
- Integrating Behavioral Health Services into Prediatric Primary Care Settings
- Statewide Integration Efforts in Practice and Policy
- Successfully Integrating Behavioral Health in Primary Care Settings Requires Teamwork
- State Level Policy Enablers for Integrated Care
- Fostering Sustainable Integrated Services Delivery in Medical and Behavioral Settings
- The State of Integrated Care and Healthcare Policy: Lessons from Sisyphus and Icarus
- Practice Transformation: Lessons Learned from Multiple Integration Projects
The Center for Integrated Healthcare Solutions sponsors webinars covering several aspects of integrated care:
- Consultation for Kids: Models of Psychiatric Consultation in Pediatric Primary Care
- Financing Integrated Healthcare Nationally and in Texas (sponsored conjointly with the Hogg Foundation)
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Five hour self-paced course for addiction treatment professionals (in conjunction with the Addiction Technology Transfer Center (ATTC)
- Telebehavioral Health Training and Technical Assistance (six sessions)
- Making Apps and Web-Based Tools Part of Your Integrated Program
- Expanding Behavioral Health Services to the Safety Net
- Medical Monitoring in Behavioral Health: the Role of the Psychiatric Medical Team
- Consultation for Kids: Models of Psychiatric Consultation in Pediatric Primary Care
- Bridging the Divide: Improving Transitions of Care to Reduce Hospital Readmission
- Remote Yet Resourceful: Integrating Behavioral Health in Rural Primary Care
- The Role of Onsite Labs and Pharmacies in Clinical Integration
- Resources for Culturally Appropriate Integrated Services for LGBT Individuals
The University of Washington-affiliated AIMS Center offers live and recorded webinars on topics related to integrated care. Among the topics they have covered are:
- Integrated Behavioral Health Care in the Era of the Medical Home
- Working with Primary Care Providers
- Psychopharmacology for Primary Care Providers
- DBT Distress Tolerance Skills
- Motivational Interviewing
- Suicide Risk Management
- Chronic Pain Care Management in Primary Care
- Mood Disorders
- Post-Traumatic Stress Disorders
- Substance Abuse and Chemical Dependency in Primary Care
- Differential Diagnosis: Navigating Difficult Diagnostic Dilemmas
California Institute for Behavioral Health Solutions has sponsored a series of integration-related webinars that, to date, include:
- Training on the Toolkit of Promising Practices for Financing Integrated Care- Part 1
- Training on the Toolkit of Promising Practices for Financing Integrated Care – Part 2
- Paying for Integrated Services FQHC Medi-Cal and Other Funding Strategies
- Bridging Differences in Cultures of Mental Health, Substance Use and Primary Care
- Addressing MH Issues in PC – IMPACT Model
- Addressing Substance Use Issues in Primary Care SBIRT and Emerging Opportunities
- Creating Partnerships that Support Integrated Care
- The Evidence Base for Models of Integrated Care
- The Case for Integrated Care
- Motivation Techniques
UCLA Integrated Substance Abuse Programs, the Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health, and the California Institute for Mental Health offer a series of online courses related to integrated care, co-occurring disorders, special populations, and more. Each course is between 1 and 1.5 hours long, and continuing education credits are available.
Community Clinics Health Network and the Council of Community Clinics of San Diego is offering a series of free one-hour-or-less webinars aimed at primary care providers, including:
- Treating ADHS in Primary Care
- Treating Older Adults with Mental Health Issues in Primary Care
- Treating Personality Disorders in Primary Care
- Treating Adolescent Depression in Primary Care
- Smoking Cessation
- Eating Disorders
- Assessment and Treatment of Perinatal Depression
- Developing Useful Behavioral Screening Protocols in Primary Care
- Motivational Interviewing: A Closer Look
- Developing Useful Motivational Techniques for Primary Care Providers
With funding from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Administration, the Addiction Technology Transfer Center Network (ATTC) offer self-paced, web-based substance abuse courses for free. Participants earn a certificate of completion after successfully finishing each course. Among the course offered are:
- Foundations of SBIRT
- Introduction to Women and Substance Abuse Disorders
- Clinical Supervision Foundations
- Primary Care for Substance Use Professionals – 5 hour on-line course
UC San Diego presents:
The University of Washington is offering 4 CME credits for healthcare professionals invoved in treating patients with chronic pain and opiod prescribing:
The National Council has dozens of webinars on varied topics. Among those related to integrated care is:
Dr. Peter Van Houten and the staff at Sierra Family Medical Clinic in Nevada City, California have prepared a series of training videos to demonstrate how primary care providers can introduce patients both to the concept of behavioral health services and to the behavioral health professionals on staff. Known as a “warm hand-off”, these introductions are important in framing behavioral health care for the patients and in engaging them in these services. Various scenarios, each lasting three to nine minutes each, are available on youtube:
- Warm Handoff Introduction
- Newly Diagnosed Bipolar Patient
- Newly Diagnosed Depression with Anxiety
- Patient with Insomnia
- Alcoholic Patient
- Post-MI Patient
Dr. Rodger Kessler, in association with UVM College of Medicine and Fletcher Allen Health Care, has also prepared a series of training videos available on youtube:
- Workflow Process for Behavioral Health Screening
- Rooming Staff Screening
- Behavioral Health Screening: The Technical Workflow (entering screening information onto electronic tracking record)
- Physician Referral to the Behavioralist: The Technical Workflow (using the electronic tracking record)
- Warm Handoff
- Initial Behavioral Health Clinician Appointment
- Physician Refers to Behavioral Health
Sierra Family Medical Clinic has prepared DVD’s of the “First Annual Behavioral Health in the Medical Setting: A Course for Medical Providers and Psychotherapists” featuring lectures by staff UC Davis Department of Psychiatry faculty. The four-DVD packet is available by calling the clinic at 530 292-3478. The presentations include:
- Treatment of substance Use Disorders
- Case-Driven Discussion of the Psychopharmalogical Treatment of Depression
- Pathophysiology, Diagnosis and Treatment of Bipolar Disorder
- Assessment and Treatment of Patients with Suicidal Behaviors
- AMPS: A Quick Effective Approach to the Primary Care Psychiatric Interview
- Emergency Psychiatry: The Agitated Patient
- The Challenging Patient
The UCLA Integrated Care Training Project, an ongoing collaboration between the Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health (DMH) and the UCLA Integrated Substance Abuse Program, offers videos geared particularly to DMH providers:
- Integration Screening and Brief Intervention for Co-Occurring Disorders: A Training for TAY, Adult and Older Adult Department of Mental Health Providers
- The Culture of Integrated Services: Health 101
- Effective Use of Revised Child Co-Occurring Disorders Supplemental Forms
Several websites offer plain-wrapped, nonaudio-visual training materials, including the one you’re now on. Another, which includes scripts, forms, operational manuals and Powerpoint presentation archives, is ibhp.org. Whatever the format, it’s nice to know that training can now come to us rather than us having to go to it.
FEE-BASED TRAINING
CE Quick offers online continuing education courses with credit hours in behavioral health, substance abuse, counseling, psychology, social work and related topics that can be purchased for $10 to $60
The Center for Integrated Primary Care, based in the University of Massachusetts Medical School, offers two on-line certificate programs: “Primary Care Behavioral Health” and “Care Managers and Navigators”. Both can be accessed by groups as part of a training site or individually by computer and both have a fee attached.