Name
Who needs to lead? The dimensions of leadership needed for system-wide integrated behavioral health adoption
Description

Integrated behavioral health (IBH) is a complex practice redesign for most primary care settings and requires strong leadership for successful implementation. Despite the availability of comprehensive IBH implementation protocols and IBH leadership training programs, IBH has not been widely adopted into health systems across the U.S., suggesting that IBH interventions have not yet engaged the right leaders. In this session, we share the results of our qualitative research study (n=41 IBH experts from across the U.S.), which examines who needs to lead IBH implementations in order to institute system-wide IBH adoption. 

Ann Nguyen
Co-Authors
Alexandra McGarry Williams, PhD, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Pediatrics, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, NJ

Anushka Purkayastha, BS, Research Assistant, Center for State Health Policy, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ

Lisa Mikesell, PhD, Associate Professor, School of Communication and Information, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ

Benjamin F. Crabtree, PhD, Professor, Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, NJ

Stephanie Marcello, PhD, Chief Psychologist, Rutgers University Behavioral Health Care, Piscataway, NJ

Ralph Gigliotti, PhD, Assistant Vice President for Organizational Leadership in University Academic Affairs, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
Content Level
Intermediate
Tags
Innovations, Research and evaluation, Team-based care
Session Type
Concurrent
SIG or Committee
Medicine
Objective 1
Identify the dimensions of leadership that must be engaged to institute system-wide integrated behavioral health (IBH) adoption
Objective 2
Describe the perspectives of national IBH experts on who needs to lead IBH implementations
Objective 3
Describe the distributed leadership model and how it applies to IBH
Content Reference 1

Nguyen, A. M., Klege, R., Menders, T., Verma, C., Marcello, S., & Crabtree, B. F. (2024). Strategies for Implementing Behavioral Health into Primary Care Settings. Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine, 37(5), 833–846. https://doi.org/10.3122/jabfm.2023.230417R1

Content Reference 2

Ruddy, N. B., & McDaniel, S. H. (2024). A Systemic Approach to Behavioral Healthcare Integration: Context Matters. https://www.apa.org/pubs/books/systemic-integrated-care

Content Reference 3

Docherty, M., Spaeth-Rublee, B., Scharf, D., Ferenchik, E., Humensky, J., Goldman, M., Chung, H., & Pincus, H. A. (2020). How Practices Can Advance the Implementation of Integrated Care in the COVID-19 Era (p. 12) [Issue Brief]. The Commonwealth Fund. https://www.commonwealthfund.org/sites/default/files/2020-11/Pincus_implementing_integrated_care_COVID_era_ib.pdf