AUNE is proud to announce a new Major Area of Study for it's Clinical PsyD program
The integration of behavioral health services (mental health, substance abuse, health behavior change) into primary care and other medical services is currently a top priority of federal (Medicare, VA, DoD), state (Medicaid) and private health plans. Evidence for clinical and cost effectiveness is driving a national movement to integrated care, and a consequent shortage of well prepared clinicians. It is not required.
Traditional training in specialty mental health settings has proven insufficient for the interdisciplinary and holistic context of primary care and other health settings. The transformation of medical settings into fully integrated care requires broadly trained generalists who can address concepts of population health delivery, clinical metrics, quality improvement, on boarding of new staff, and who can offer confident representation of the behavioral aspects of all of the work in primary care. Psychologists with training and experience in these areas are in great demand.
Completing this Major Area of Study (MAS) as part of the doctoral program in clinical psychology will prepare clinical psychologists to meet the behavioral health needs for underserved and vulnerable populations within primary care and other ambulatory medical settings.
To give doctoral clinicians the skills to work in integrated primary care; helping to improve the patient's' care and assisting the doctors/nurses.
