An Innovative Behavioral Health Workforce Initiative: Keeping Pace with an Emerging Model of Care

Mixed‐Design Training Outcomes for Fellows Serving At‐Risk Youth Within Integrated Care Settings

“…These findings contribute to the existing literature on interprofessional integrated care training (Putney et al, 2017), demonstrating counseling training programs emphasizing interprofessional collaboration and integrated care in settings serving at-risk youth may positively influence professional identity development and self-efficacy, rather than deterring such growth areas. The results affirm K. F. Johnson and Freeman's (2014) assertion that effective training in interprofessional collaboration may increase one's self-efficacy and, concurrently, one's professional development.…”

“…The SAFE-C includes elements particular to the interprofessional development of clinical mental health counseling students at the same university. Similar to Putney et al's (2017) HRSA-funded integrated care training for social work, SAFE-C includes advanced curriculum requirements, integrated care field placements, and cocurricular trainings emphasizing interprofessional integrated care. Specifically, students in the intervention group were required to take advanced coursework on child and adolescent prevention and treatment (e.g., suicide prevention, nonsuicidal self-injury) and evidence-based treatment (e.g., motivational interviewing, trauma-informed care).…”

“…Despite these requirements, there is little attention to effective counselor education program designs and outcome research to better understand the impact of these efforts. Putney et al (2017) evaluated the impact of an integrated care training program for social work students serving at-risk youth, specifically on the application of treatment knowledge in integrated care settings. In this study, students reported improvements in knowledge as well as confidence in applying this information in practice.…”

Helping Community Partners Build Capacity within Integrated Behavioral Health

“…As field education sites are comprised of various levels of systemic integration, social work programs must work closely with community stakeholders to determine the range of opportunities for their students to gain the knowledge and skills necessary to work within integrated health and social care settings. An additional challenge related to gaining applied knowledge is the lack of clarity among and across field instructors, faculty field liaisons, and students about integrated care language and interprofessional training expectations and experiences (Putney et al, 2017). Moreover, generational differences have been shown to exist between students receiving the current social work curricula and for seasoned supervisors in the field who may have continuing education needs related to more recent expectations for social workers in gaining competence in evidence-based practices such as SBIRT (Fraher et al, 2018).…”

Social Work's Commitment and Leadership to Address Social Determinants of Health and Integrate Social Care into Health Care

“…As interprofessional education is increasingly required by health affairs accreditation standards, incorporating modules on SDOH and social care will embed this content in the education and training of all future health professionals . Encouragingly, in the past decade, social work programs nationwide have enhanced their preparation of Masters in Social Work students for employment in integrated health care settings (e.g., Davis et al, 2019;Putney et al, 2017;Rishel & Hartnett, 2015;Zerden et al, 2017). Increasing numbers of social work schools and programs have begun offering specialized training in health care social work and taken leadership in the nationwide development of interprofessional education curricula taught by and to multiple health professions (Jones & Phillips, 2016).…”