Clinical practice in Integrated Behavioral Health (IBH) settings requires skills and knowledge that often differs significantly from those required for practice in specialty mental health settings, and yet training for IBH settings remains sparse and unstandardized. This presentation will review the results of a Delphi study in which the 21 behavioral health experts identified the fundamental skills, interventions, and academic knowledge to prepare future behavioral health providers for effective practice in IBH settings. An exploration of the skills and knowledge identified by behavioral health experts will occur, with emphasis on items that may currently be missing from the majority of graduate behavioral health training programs. Afterwards, presenters will connect the identified skills and knowledge with popular models of behavioral health integration, including the Primary Care Behavioral Health Model, Collaborative Care Model, and co-located therapy models. This presentation will end with the presenters facilitating a discussion centered on current graduate training for behavioral health providers and ways in which educators can advocate for IBH to be more intentionally incorporated into graduate-level training programs.
Lisa Corbin PhD, LPC, NCC, Director of the MS in Counseling Programs, Assistant Professor, PCOM, Philadelphia, PA
