GCHC Integrated Behavioral HealthCare Partnership 2021-2022
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This grant provides direct services to patients from throughout eNC and particularly In Pitt, Greene, and Pamlico Counties through a Federally Qualified Healthcare Center. Providers trained in Medical Family Therapy (MedFT) offer a unique lens in CHCs that bridge medical and behavioral health assessments, diagnoses, and treatment via a collaborative, transdisciplinary team and approach to care. In this context, MedFT is described as the practice of treating patients and their families (i.e., support persons) in relation to health, illness, loss, or trauma using a biopsychosocial-spiritual (BPSS; Engel, 1977, 1980; Wright, Watson & Bell, 1996) and systemic approach to care (Hodgson, Lamson, Mendenhall, & Crane, 2014). The BPSS framework is essential for MedFTs in CHCs because patients come from diverse social locations and are treated outside of a traditional medical model through an integration of biological, psychological, social, and spiritual components of their life. Patients in GCHC contexts are treated for behavioral and mental health care through interventions that are indicated for our diverse and commonly otherwise underserved patient panels.
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