Integrated Care

Get Trained in the Collaborative Care Model

Learn about the benefits and opportunities included in the APA's Collaborative Care Model training program.

What are the benefits of APA's training program?

APA is offering free training in the Collaborative Care Model for psychiatrists, primary care providers and behavioral health care managers as part of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Transforming Clinical Practice Initiative (TCPI).

• FREE training in the Collaborative Care Model, the only integrated care model with a clear evidence base
• CME credit offered for the training
• Facilitated connection with a Practice Transformation Network in your region
• Eligible to participate in a Learning Collaborative for continued education and MOC

• Psychiatrists

  For Psychiatrists

  APA offers free training in the Collaborative Care Model (CoCM) for psychiatrists as part of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Transforming Clinical Practice Initiative (TCPI). By receiving this initiative and training in CoCM, psychiatrists will be preparing for payment reform and practicing in a value-based world.

  Free Online Training

  Applying the Integrated Care Approach: Core

  This course provides training in Collaborative Care Consultation Psychiatry, focusing on the knowledge, skills and attitudes necessary to help psychiatrists provide high quality care for larger populations.

  • 4 CME Credits

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  Applying the Integrated Care Approach: Advanced

  This course is offered to those that have completed the core training. For more information, please contact san@psych.org

  • 2 CME Credits

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  APA Learning Center

  Treating Substance Abuse through Collaborative Care

  Collaborative care is an evidence-based model of integrated mental health in primary care settings that shows clear and significant effectiveness for the treatment of depression, anxiety, and PTSD. Widespread implementation of Collaborative Care is now occurring across the country to answer the need for increased access for mental health treatment. Concurrently, there is a growing need for the treatment of substance use disorders, which often present in the primary care setting where they have traditionally been inadequately addressed.

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• Primary Care Providers

  For Primary Care Providers

  APA is also offering free training in the Collaborative Care Model (CoCM) for primary care providers (PCPs) as part of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Transforming Clinical Practice Initiative (TCPI). PCPs have an opportunity to learn how to improve access to mental health and substance use services and connect with psychiatrists trained in the model.

  Free Online Training

  Applying the Integrated Care Approach: Skills for the Primary Care Physician

  Integrated care programs, in which mental health care is delivered in primary care settings, exist as a promising solution to common, disabling and costly behavioral health problems, such as depression, anxiety and substance use disorders.

  • 2 CME Credits

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  Collaborative Care for Primary Care Providers

  This presentation will educate primary care providers on the Collaborative Care Model as a solution to access issues. Primary Care providers will also learn how to connect with a psychiatrist trained in the model.

  • 1 CME Credits

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  FAQs for Primary Care Physicians

  View answers to frequently asked questions for primary care physicians to clarify elements of behavioral health integration.

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• BH Care Managers

  For Behavioral Health Care Managers

  APA offers a free online training for Behavioral Health Care Managers (BHCMs) as part of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Transforming Clinical Practice Initiative (TCPi). BHCMs play an integral role in the Collaborative Care Model, and these modules highlight the foundational concepts of CoCM and provide the opportunity to learn how to work with a psychiatric consultant using a data-driven process to ensure that patients get the most effective care possible.

  Free Online Training

  Applying the Integrated Care Approach: Skills for the Behavioral Health Care Manager

  Within the Collaborative Care Model (CoCM), the Behavioral Health Care Manager (BHCM) plays the pivotal role of providing behavioral health care in the primary care setting. BHCMs engage patients, provide behavioral interventions, coordinate information between members of the team and with other providers and family members, and participate in a unique data-driven process with the psychiatric consultant to ensure that patients get the most effective care possible. All of this requires the acquisition of knowledge and a number of specific skills and attitudes that may be new to a behavioral health provider.

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