New AACAP Virtual Series: How Collaborative Care Enhances Your Practice and Increases Child Mental Health Access

In order to meet the significant need for pediatric mental health services, many child and adolescent psychiatrists are trying to evolve their practices to work more collaboratively within our systems of care. By working more collaboratively with primary care practices and others, our limited workforce can address the mental health needs of more children and adolescents. This six-part series teaches the essentials that all child and adolescent psychiatrists need to know to enhance their practices by adopting collaborative models. This free virtual series includes 6 videos by experts in the field and up to 3 opportunities to interact with those experts over the next year.

Learning Objectives

1. Discuss collaborative care models and how enhancing practice by incorporating collaborative care improves access to critical mental health treatment for children and adolescents.
2. Implement one or more collaborative care models using transformative best practices by enhancing partnership with primary care clinicians.
3. Develop sustainable funding for collaborative care.
4. Demonstrate how collaborative care can propel leadership and advocacy efforts by child and adolescent psychiatrists.

How to Participate

To fully participate in this series, we suggest:

• Watching the six videos (each approximately 45 minutes) on your own time.
• Signing up for two live virtual Zoom meetings with a chance to ask questions and hear directly from the experts.

Watch the How Collaborative Care Enhances Your Practice and Increases Child Mental Health Access Series

Safe and effective mental and physical health care requires collaboration and communication between child and adolescent psychiatrists and other medical professionals. AACAP provides materials to assist clinicians and policy makers interested in developing collaborative care model.

• Compendium Of Behavioral Health Integration Resources For Physician Practices including links to the "Overcoming Obstacles" webinar series


• Clinical Update: Collaborative Mental Health Care for Children and Adolescents in Pediatric Primary Care
  JAACAP Volume 62 February 2023
  
  
• Best Principles for Integration of Child Psychiatry into the Pediatric Health Home (© 2012)
  This document is intended to assist health insurance payers and purchasers by providing a framework for integrating and sustaining mental health in the pediatric health home.
  
  
• Guide to Building Collaborative Mental Health Care Partnerships In Pediatric Primary Care (© 2010)
  
  

Collaborative and Integrated Care Podcast Series