{"id":6335,"date":"2019-05-31T15:33:45","date_gmt":"2019-05-31T19:33:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/psychiatry\/?p=6335"},"modified":"2019-05-31T15:33:45","modified_gmt":"2019-05-31T19:33:45","slug":"integrated-behavioral-health-in-pediatrics-clinic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/psychiatry\/2019\/05\/31\/integrated-behavioral-health-in-pediatrics-clinic\/","title":{"rendered":"Integrated Behavioral Health in Pediatrics Clinic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/psychiatry\/files\/2018\/01\/Spencer-Andrea-184x184.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"184\" height=\"184\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5242 alignleft\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/psychiatry\/files\/2018\/01\/Spencer-Andrea-184x184.jpg 184w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/psychiatry\/files\/2018\/01\/Spencer-Andrea-184x184-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/psychiatry\/files\/2018\/01\/Spencer-Andrea-184x184-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 184px) 100vw, 184px\" \/>A study led by\u00a0<\/span><strong>Andrea Spencer, MD<\/strong><span>, on integrated behavioral healthcare in the Boston Medical Center Pediatrics clinic was published in the\u00a0<\/span><em>Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved<\/em><span>\u00a0and also given a press release.\u00a0 The study looked at patient engagement and outcomes around mental health care with a psychiatrist who has been embedded in the clinic in 2013. In that time period,\u00a0211 patients were referred to the psychiatrist.\u00a0 The study found that\u00a074% of patients who were referred completed an evaluation.\u00a0 It also found that younger children, children with a history of therapy and children\u00a0who had more severe symptoms and higher levels of psychiatric comorbidity were more likely to engage with services.\u00a0 Overall, this model proved successful, and is addressing a significant need among the patient population.\u00a0\u00a0Read the press release\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2019\/05\/190523130158.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a><span>, and the abstract of the article\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/31130542\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a><span>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A study led by\u00a0Andrea Spencer, MD, on integrated behavioral healthcare in the Boston Medical Center Pediatrics clinic was published in the\u00a0Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved\u00a0and also given a press release.\u00a0 The study looked at patient engagement and outcomes around mental health care with a psychiatrist who has been embedded in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13421,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/psychiatry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6335"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/psychiatry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/psychiatry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/psychiatry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13421"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/psychiatry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6335"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/psychiatry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6336,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/psychiatry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6335\/revisions\/6336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/psychiatry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/psychiatry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/psychiatry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}