Adult Clinical Topics

1. ADHD in Children and Adults: The ABCs for BHCs

   • ​Reviews basic background information about ADHD, the keys to assessing and treating ADHD in primary care, and the various additional ways a behavioral health provider can help manage primary care patients with ADHD. Both adult and pediatric ADHD topics are covered.​​​​

2. ADHD in Adults: The BHC Role

   • ​A detailed and comprehensive discussion of the nature of ADHD in adults, its epidemiology, assessment and treatment. Includes ways a BHC can contribute to safe prescribing of stimulant medications in primary care.

3. Adults with Developmental Disabilities:  Strategies for a BHC

   • ​Provides essential background information about intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) and general strategies for working with patients with IDD. Part of the deck focuses in particular on ways a BHC can help with autism.

4. Anxiety in Adults

   • An overview of the various ways anxiety presents in adult primary care patients and screening strategies for detecting anxiety. Also discusses the medications commonly used for anxiety and the behavioral strategies a BHC can use.​

5. Managing Autism in Primary Care

   • Discusses the diagnostic criteria for autism and primary care screening strategies for ASD. Introduces the various behavioral strategies a BHC can use to help patients with autism as well as the medication strategies PCPs commonly use.​

6. Bipolar Disorder in Adults

   • Covers epidemiological and treatment data about bipolar disorder, keys to differentiating bipolar 1 from 2, important medication basics, and behavioral strategies a BHC can use.​

7. Chronic Pain in Primary Care:  An Overview and Keys to Success

   • Reviews basic epidemiological and clinical information about chronic pain, as well as the behavioral and other strategies a behavioral health provider can use for managing chronic pain in primary care​

8. The BHC’s Guide to Anxiety and Depression Medication

   • Covers the most important information for a BHC to know about commonly used medications for mood problems, to promote effective communication with PCPs and patients and comprehensive team-based care.​

9. Controlled Substances in Primary Care:  The Issues, Challenges and Management Strategies

   • Provides basic information about controlled substances (stimulants, opioids and benzodiazepines) needed by behavioral health providers in primary care. Details strategies for helping primary care providers safely manage patients who use these medications.​

10. Depression in Adults

    • Discusses primary care screening and intervention strategies for depression in adults, including medications commonly used in primary care and behavioral strategies commonly used by BHCs.​

11. Depression in Older Adults

    • Discusses primary care screening and intervention strategies for older adults with depression, including special considerations needed for using medication and behavioral interventions with older adults.​

12. Diabetes: What a BHC Needs to Know

    • Details the basic medical aspects of diabetes that behavioral health providers need to know. Reviews strategies that can be used in primary care to help patients make lifestyle changes to successfully manage diabetes.​

13. Managing Eating Disorders in Primary Care

    • An overview of the types of eating disorders, their epidemiology, and what can be done in primary care to identify and manage them.​

14. Treating Erectile Dysfunction in Primary Care

    • Reviews common causes of erectile dysfunction, and empirically-supported medical and behavioral treatments. The section on behavioral treatment covers in particular how to implement sensate focus as a BHC.​

15. Managing Grief in Primary Care

    • Provides an overview of basic information about grief and loss, the key components of assessing patients presenting with grief, and common behavioral and other interventions for grief in primary care​

16. Headaches Basics for BHCs

    • Reviews the different types of headaches, as well as the medication and behavioral interventions that can benefit patients with headaches.​

17. How to Avoid Weight Stigma and Promote Healthy Eating and Activity in Adults

    • Explains weight stigma and the health effects it can have, then details behavioral interventions a BHC can use to help patients develop healthy lifestyles. Applies mostly to an adult patient population.​

18. Hypertension: What a BHC Needs to Know

    • Details the basic medical aspects of hypertension that behavioral health providers need to know. Reviews strategies that can be used in primary care to help patients make lifestyle changes to successfully manage hypertension.​

19. Treating Insomnia in Primary Care: An Overview and Keys to Success

    • Reviews key information about sleep and insomnia, including important components of insomnia assessment. Explains behavioral strategies that can be applied in primary care for treating insomnia.​

20. Detecting and Managing Intimate Partner Violence in Primary Care

    • Describes the latest USPSTF-recommended tools and strategies for IPV screening in primary care, as well as interventions a BHC can use to help patients experiencing IPV. Background on the epidemiology of IPV is also reviewed.​

21. Older Adults in Primary Care

    • Provides background information about working with older adults in primary care. Reviews how to screen for and manage the most common behavioral concerns that older adults present with in primary care, including detailed review of cognitive screening tools.​

22. The BHC Role with Schizophrenia

    • Reviews the epidemiology and treatment of schizophrenia, how to recognize it, and important medication information for a BHC to know. Also reviews ways a BHC can help with schizophrenia in primary care.​

23. Tobacco/Nicotine Cessation in Primary Care: Basic Issues and Strategies for Adults

    • Describes the epidemiology of tobacco and nicotine use, and details both behavioral and medication interventions commonly used in primary care for tobacco and nicotine cessation.​

24. Human Trafficking Screening and Intervention in Primary Care

    • Discusses the rationale, strategies and tools for human trafficking screening in primary care, appropriate responses to a positive screen and potentially helpful resources for patients.​

25. Motivational Interviewing for BHCs

    • This webinar reviews the “spirit of MI” as well as specific MI strategies a BHC can put to use.

26. Brief Alcohol Interventions

    • The USPSTF recommends screening for risky alcohol use and providing brief counseling interventions to anyone screening positive. This webinar reviews how to do both, with a focus on interventions for visits lasting 3-10 minutes.

27. Helping Stressed Parents and Caregivers

    • Caregivers of all types, including parents, commonly seek advice in primary care for their own stress and seek support for the ones they care for. This webinar reviews the challenges caregivers can face and how a BHC can help.​

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