Child Psychiatry Consult

How to integrate mental health care into primary care


 

Resources

The AACAP website has materials to help clinicians develop a collaborative mental health care model in the primary care setting: Search for “collaboration with primary care.”

The journal Pediatrics also has a useful resource: Improving mental health services in primary care: Reducing administrative and financial barriers to access and collaboration. (2009;123;1248-51).

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