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The development of a healthcare workforce is intended to respond to the medical and behavioral health needs of patients whose health status and functioning are affected by comorbid health issues. This chapter introduces the two key questions that are addressed throughout the remainder of this book:
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What do practitioners involved in the care of patients with medical and behavioral comorbidities need to know about clinical, operational, and financial dimensions of providing effective treatments to a large segment of patients?
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What skills, processes, and procedures do faculty, trainers, and supervisors of practitioners learning how to be effective in this emerging care model need to train and teach?
This introduction shapes the chapters that follow it, by introducing the ideas that will be elaborated on in each chapter. Most of the chapters expand the construct of behavioral health integration beyond the traditional parameters of training in mental health treatment. We hope that such expansion of that concept will translate into teaching material that will address the complexity of providing team-based integrated healthcare.
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Kessler, R., Macchi, C.R. (2018). Introduction. In: Macchi, C., Kessler, R. (eds) Training to Deliver Integrated Care. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-78850-0_1
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