The American Psychiatry Association offers specialized training in the Collaborative Care Model (CoCM) for treating providers, psychiatric consultants and behavioral health care managers. Click to review their course offerings.
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Behavioral Health Care Manager (BHCM)
Learn about the Collaborative Care Model (APA)
Over the past decade, the integration of behavioral health and general medical services has been shown to improve patient outcomes, save money, and reduce stigma related to mental health. Significant research spanning three decades has identified one model – the...
Daniel’s Story: An Introduction to Collaborative Care (video)
Learn about Collaborative Care through the eyes of Daniel, a patient whose care team changed his life.
Large-Scale Dissemination of Collaborative Care and Implications for Psychiatry
The evidence is overwhelming that a collaborative care approach to common mental illnesses is superior to usual care. Why isn’t this model widely available? The authors of this column argue that the problem is not a lack of evidence or documentation of a better...
Integrated Care: Creating Effective Mental and Primary Health Care Teams
Primary Health Care Teams provides the first comprehensive guide for teams to integrate effective mental health care into primary care clinics. Edited by a team of UW Medicine mental health experts, it includes practical information, skills, and clinical approaches...
Psychiatric Case Review and Treatment Intensification in Collaborative Care Management for Depression in Primary Care
Published in Psychiatric Services. This study examined whether psychiatric case review was associated with depression medication modification in a large implementation program of collaborative care for depression in safety-net primary care clinics.
A Randomized Trial of Collaborative Depression Care in Obstetrics and Gynecology Clinics: Socioeconomic Disadvantage and Treatment Response
Published in The American Journal of Psychiatry. Collaborative depression care adapted to obstetrics-gynecology settings had a greater impact on depression outcomes for socially disadvantaged women with no insurance or with public coverage compared with women with...
Long-term Cost Effects of Collaborative Care for Late-life Depression
Published in The American Journal of Managed Care. Compared with usual primary care, the IMPACT program is associated with a high probability of lower total healthcare costs during a 4-year period.
Collaborative Care Management of Late-Life Depression in the Primary Care Setting: A Randomized Controlled Trial
Published in the Journal of the American Medical Association. The IMPACT study is a multisite randomized controlled trial of a collaborative intervention program for late-life depression in primary care. Study protocols were developed in collaboration with all...
The Pathways Study: A Randomized Trial of Collaborative Care in Patients With Diabetes and Depression
Published in Arch Gen Psychiatry. The Pathways collaborative care model improved depression care and outcomes in patients with comorbid major depression and/or dysthymia and diabetes mellitus