New Major Area of Study
First Major Area of Study in behavioral health integration in an APA accredited doctoral program in clinical psychology launched at AUNE
Antioch University New England (AUNE) has the first APA accredited Doctoral program in Clinical Psychology (PsyD) offering a Major Area of Study in behavioral health integration. This program trains psychologists to practice as team members in primary care and other health care settings. The Behavioral Health Integration and Population Health Major Area of Study is designed to enable psychologists to emerge from their doctoral training with the ability to be fully competent primary care behavioral health clinicians, as well as leaders in designing and developing behavioral health integration programming.
Integrated primary care (IPC) allows patients to feel that for any problem they bring, they have come to the right place. By teaming behavioral health clinicians and medical providers, IPC is the structural realization of the biopsychosocial model advocated so broadly in Medicine and Psychology. It is the reunification in practice of the mind and the body, for so long addressed in the separate worlds of medical and mental health treatment. No wonder fully integrated primary care has been shown to improve patient satisfaction, clinician satisfaction, access to care, and clinical effectiveness while lowering overall costs.