Integrated Behavioral Health Practice

This valuable resource prepares graduate-level students in social work and other helping professions to provide integrated behavioral health services in community-based health and mental healthcare settings. Responding to the increasing prevalence of behavioral health issues in the general U.S. population and the resulting additional responsibilities for social workers and health professionals, this textbook describes the latest evidence-based practices and interventions for common behavioral health disorders as well as issues related to suicide, violence, substance use, and trauma. Detailed case studies help illustrate the effects of a range of interventions, inviting readers to consider how best to implement behavioral health assessment and treatment practices that are evidence-based, trauma-informed, and recovery-oriented. 

In addition to outlining integrated behavioral health service models and assessment tools, chapters address specific topics such as:

• Public health approaches to addressing interpersonal violence
• Intersections of social, behavioral, and physical health
• Achieving recovery and well-being from behavioral health disorders
• Motivating clients to achieve and maintain recovery from addiction
• Stage-based treatments for substance use disorders
• Cognitive behavioral approaches to treating anxiety and depressive disorders
• Evidence-based approaches to treating the effects of trauma and PTSD 

Integrated Behavioral Health Practice equips graduate students and health professionals alike to provide sensitive and informed interprofessional care for patients and families while consistently engaging in practices that emphasize recovery and well-being.

Michael A. Mancini, PhD, MSW, is an associate professor in the School of Social Work at Saint Louis University in Missouri. He is also co-director of the Doerr Center for Social Justice Education and Research. He received his PhD in Social Work from the University at Albany in New York in 2003. His research focuses on the evaluation and implementation of integrated behavioral health services in community-based mental health programs, hospitals, and schools. He has published in a range of social work and mental health journals including: Community Mental Health Journal, Qualitative Health Research, Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal, British Journal of Social Work, Journal of Social Work Education, Journal of Behavioral Health Services and Research, and the American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse.  He has conducted professional development seminars on trauma-informed care and co-occurring mental health and substance use disorder assessment and treatment, and has taught graduate-level social work courses on clinical assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of behavioral health disorders for the last 20 years. As a practitioner, he has worked as a social work case manager, program specialist, and administrator in a variety of behavioral health settings.