Name
M12 - Preparing Family Medicine to Address the Youth Behavioral Health Crisis: One Year Outcomes
Date & Time
Saturday, October 18, 2025, 11:15 AM - 11:45 AM
Location Name
306B
Description

Equipping family medicine providers with the skills to identify and treat mental and behavioral health concerns in children and adolescents is critical to meet the needs of this population. This presentation will follow up on a co-located child and adolescent psychiatric consultation service in a family medicine clinic, created as a training mechanism for family medicine residents and presented in 2024. We will present findings of a retrospective chart review to describe the patient population that received consultation services, treatment recommendations, and changes in prescribing patterns among family medicine providers. We will discuss how these findings inform training needs of primary care providers and considerations for implementing consultation services in training settings and alongside other integrated care models.

Speakers
Kelsey Ross MPH, Project Manager, Individual - Kelsey Ross, Chapel Hill, NC
Michael Baca-Atlas MD, FASAM, Clinical Associate Professor, University of North Carolina, School of Medicine, Family Medicine, Raleigh, NC
Samantha Hamburger MSW, Program Coordinator, UNC Department of Family Medicine, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Michael Baca-Atlas Samantha Hamburger
Co-Authors
Brianna Lombardi, PhD, MSW, Assistant Professor, UNC Department of Family Medicine
Herman Naftel, MD, Assistant Professor, UNC Psychiatry
Content Level
Intermediate
Tags
Psychiatry, Research and evaluation, Workforce development
Session Type
Concurrent
SIG or Committee
Medicine
Objective 1
List common treatment recommendations made from the child and adolescent psychiatrist to family medicine providers.
Objective 2
Describe case scenarios that family medicine providers seek consultation about.
Objective 3
Identify three areas of training to enhance care of child and adolescent patients with mental and behavioral health needs.
Content Reference 1

Science”: Advancing a Behavioral Medicine Track in a Family Medicine Residency. The International Journal of Psychiatry in Medicine, 45(4), 311–322. https://doi.org/10.2190/PM.45.4.b

Content Reference 2

ACGME. (2019). Supplemenatl Guide: Family Medicine. https://www.acgme.org/globalassets/PDFs/Milestones/FamilyMedicineSupplementalGuide.pdf?ver=2019-12-13-091243-987

Content Reference 3

Butler, D. J., Fons, D., Fisher, T., Sanders, J., Bodenhamer, S., Owen, J. R., & Gunderson, M. (2018). A review of the benefits and limitations of a primary care-embedded psychiatric consultation service in a medically underserved setting. The International Journal of Psychiatry in Medicine, 53(5–6), 415–426. https://doi.org/10.1177/0091217418791456

Content Reference 4

Office of the Surgeon General (OSG). (2021). Protecting Youth Mental Health: The U.S. Surgeon General’s Advisory. UUS Department of Health and Human Services. https://www.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/surgeon-general-youth-mental-health-advisory.pdf