Integrated Behavioral Care is the collaborative effort between a mental health provider and a primary care doctor within a division to provide both mental and physical care to clients (Krall, Christian & Curtis, 2012). Bringing counselors and health care providers through collaborative efforts to educate clients through the use of psychoeducation has the ability to do the following: assist clients with increasing their wisdom about their overall mental health and medical condition, reduce medical costs and crisis situations, while assisting them with understanding additional ways to eliminate illnesses, often times in a brief manner (Dickinson & Miller, 2010). Through integrated behavioral care, the client has the opportunity to feel comfortable receiving complete care in one central location. Integrated behavioral care provides clients the satisfaction of feeling reassured they are receiving total care.
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