Name
J09 - Preparing Family Medicine to Address the Youth Behavioral Health Crisis: Creation of a Co-located Psychiatric Consult Clinic
Description

There is a high level of unmet mental and behavioral (MBH) health need among child and adolescent patients and primary care providers – including Family Medicine practitioners – are often the first to identify these needs. The shortage of child and adolescent psychiatric providers, combined with an overburdened mental healthcare system, creates many barriers for patients to access psychiatric care. Co-locating MBH psychiatry services in a primary care setting builds the capacity of clinics to address patient needs while offering training opportunities to upskill current and future Family Medicine providers in supporting the MBH needs of their child and adolescent patients. This presentation will describe the development, implementation, and evaluation of a co-located child and adolescent psychiatric consultation clinic within an academic family medicine center and how this clinic is serving as an educational mechanism for family medicine physicians.

Date & Time
Saturday, October 26, 2024, 11:15 AM - 11:45 AM
Michael Baca-Atlas Sam Hamburger
Co-Authors
Herman Naftel, MD; Brianna Lombardi, PhD, MSW.
Content Level
All Audience
Tags
Medical, Pediatrics, Psychiatry, Workforce development
Session Type
Concurrent
SIG or Committee
Peds, Medical
Location Name
Presidio A
Objective 1
Describe family medicine resident comfort and competence diagnosing, assessing and treating child and adolescent MBH concerns
Objective 2
Describe a model for integrating co-locating a child and adolescent psychiatry consultation into an academic family medicine clinic as a training mechanism for family medicine residents and preceptors
Objective 3
Describe family medicine physician experience collaborating with a child and adolescent psychiatrist in a co-located clinic
Content Reference 1

Whitney, D.G. & Peterson, M. (2019). US national and state-level prevalence of mental health disorders and disparities of mental health care use in children. JAMA Pediatrics, 173(4), 389-391. doi:10.1001/jamapediatrics.2018.5399

Content Reference 2

Nutting R, Ofei-Dodoo S, Wipperman J, Allen AD. Assessing Family Medicine Physicians' Perceptions of Integrated Behavioral Health in a Primary Care Residency. Fam Med. 2022 May;54(5):389-394. doi: 10.22454/FamMed.2022.541800. PMID: 35536625.

Content Reference 3

American Academy of child and Adolescent Psychiatry. 2019. Practicing Child and Adolescent Psychiatrists Workforce Maps by State. https://www.aacap.org/AACAP/Advocacy/Federal_and_State_Initiatives/Workforce_Maps/Home.aspx

Content Reference 4

U.S. Surgeon General’s Advisory. (2021). Protecting Youth Mental Health. https://www.hhs.gov/surgeongeneral/priorities/youth-mental-health/index.html