Upcoming Action Session: Supporting Your Team in the Collaborative Care Model: Lessons from the Field
- Thursday, July 23, 2026
- 2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
This interactive panel brings together a collaborative care team composed of a psychiatric consultant, a behavioral health care manager and a primary care physician to explore what effective collaboration looks like in the Collaborative Care Model (CoCM). Panelists will share practical insights on how they built strong working relationships, aligned their clinical approaches and created bidirectional communication that supports both patient care and team functioning.
By the end of this session, participants will be able to:
- Identify practical strategies to support and engage care team members when initiating or expanding Collaborative Care services.
- Describe best practices for establishing effective collaboration between psychiatric consultants, care managers and primary care physicians.
- Apply approaches to ongoing quality improvement (QI) within case review and team workflows to enhance patient outcomes and team efficiency.
Mental health is essential to improving overall health outcomes across the lifespan. Integrated care is a general term for any attempt to fully or partially blend behavioral health services with general and/or specialty medical services. By treating both the mental and physical needs of children, adolescents, and adults, we will better meet the triple aim of improved patient outcomes and satisfaction at a lower cost by addressing common, disabling and costly behavioral health problems.
Over the past decade, the integration of behavioral health and general medical services has been shown to improve patient outcomes, save money, and reduce stigma related to mental health. Significant research spanning three decades has identified one model – the Collaborative Care Model – in particular, as being effective and efficient in delivering integrated care.